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It is fortunate for their survival that babies are so designed by nature that they beguile and enslave mothers.
It remains the first aim of treatment to attach him [the patient] to it [the analysis] and to the person of the doctor.
While today we take it for granted that the relationship between the analyst and patient is an essential ingredient of any good treatment situation, the nature of that relationship has been an area of controversy throughout the history of psychoanalysis. Addressing the aspect of the controversy that involves the degree of the analyst's activity, Jacob Jacobson (1993) cautions that while the analyst's mirrorlike