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Chair: Fred Busch
Presenters: Stefano Bolognini, Virginia Ungar and Claudio Eizirik
Reporter: Douglas A. Chavis
Fred Busch introduced this Panel, suggesting a focus on the significance of the term intimacy for psychoanalytic treatment. Referring to Ingram, he wonders if a “therapeutic intimacy” occurs between patient and analyst, and how it may be theoretically and clinically understood? Busch recognizes analysts who believe intimacy may impair the development of transference, and others who believe that it may deepen the transference. Intimacy may be associated with a positive maternal transference derived from a nurturing mother, and it may also cause anxiety and be phobically avoided. Busch suggests defining psychoanalytic intimacy as the “experience of a shared goal to help the analysand find or re-find her mind”. Agreeing with Bolognini, Busch cautions that this understanding of intimacy is not to be