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Eight experienced Swedish psychoanalysts have contributed to this anthology, the first part of which consists of seven clinical papers. They all demonstrate how the analyst's ‘dream-thinking’—such as fantasies, images, day-dreams—often meets the analysand's associations, although the analyst at first tends to dismiss his ‘dream-thinking as unrelated to the analysand's material’.
Franziska Ylander describes the transition between ‘recognizing oneself’ and ‘not recognizing oneself’ as an important part of the analyst's work with him-/herself. Anna Lena Isaksson and Agneta Sandell describe respectively a child and an adolescent analysis. Isaksson focuses on the analyst's opportunity of employing her own intrapsychic play together with her little analysand. Sandell, whose paper is based on one in Psychoanalysis in Europe (‘The adolescent process and psychic change’, 1998, Bulletin 50: 17-32) describes intensive provocation during a dramatic phase of an adolescent analysis and demonstrates how the transference and countertransference work with emotions of hate and violence could lead to a feeling of liberation. To give a more detailed impression of the book, three papers from the first section will be discussed in detail.
Clarence Crafoord's thesis in ‘Free association in the countertransference’ is that the analyst's consultation creates a meeting place for the analyst's and the analysand's psychic contents—images and thoughts appear and merge into a sort of synthesis.
Among Crafoord's vignette is a description of his disappointment when he realised that his former analyst—whom he had not seen for years—remembered neither him nor their joint analytic work. Soon afterwards, Crafoord himself did not recognise one of his own former analysands. These experiences make Crafoord reflect on whether the dreamworld of the analytic process may be so far from the everyday reality that it is quite natural that the analyst and analysand are estranged to each other when they incidentally