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With the publication of these two books by eminent clinicians, both within the same year, it may now be fairly said that the attention of the psychoanalytic community has been refocused upon the dyadic nature of the analytic situation—particularly upon the person of the analyst as it operates within and impacts upon the analytic process. This is not a new subject, as our introductory review of the older literature indicates. For earlier authors, a study of the personal impact of the analyst meant essentially a study of the countertransference, defined narrowly as a specific infantile response by the analyst to a