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Optimal Responsiveness is a theoretical and practical examination of the current state of thinking about how psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists heal their patients. As such, it takes the seminal concept of “optimal responsiveness” as a starting point of extensive commentary. It seeks to illustrate how psychotherapeutic improvement can be understood from the vantage point of this concept, and how the same concept illuminates the reciprocal influences in the psychotherapeutic dyad.
The term, “optimal responsiveness” was originated by the editor of this volume, Howard Bacal, in 1985. His original article, “Optimal responsiveness