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Louis H. Hamel, Jr., Esq. is a Massachusetts lawyer retired from the Boston firm of Wilmer Hale (formerly Hale and Dorr), where he long chaired Trusts & Estates and was active in Pensions, Exempt Organizations and Family Business practice. Earlier he taught Philosophy at Manhattanville College in Purchase NY and then managed a family industrial real estate business in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He has read Psychoanalytic materials for 40 years and has done other writings on Law and Psychoanalysis. He was a member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Allience until it ceased operations. He is a Fellow (Retired) of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel. We invite readers to respond with papers and letters to the editor to these fascinating pieces of legal and Psychoanalytic theory and practice.
The relationship between lawyer and client is compared with the working or therapeutic alliance between therapist and patient with regard to a variety of points, namely:
The likelihood of transference and countertransference processes.
Revision of submission to power.
Interpretation and reformulation of perception, cognition and styles of coping.
Identification and support.
Confession.
Neutrality.
Two Styles of Lawyer, the Guarded and the Expansive.