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My paper was written in the spirit of attempting to stimulate discussion, so I welcomed the Editors’ decision to invite comments from Gabrielle Crockatt, Miranda Davies, Viviane Green and Peter Wilson. Their ideas have indeed proved stimulating, so I am glad to have this opportunity to respond with what is in effect a ‘brain-storm’ to the points they have made. I intend to discuss these thoughts more fully in the future.
Viviane Green draws our attention to Fonagy's paper which concludes that the changes that took place in the analysis of a patient who seemed impervious to transference interpretations could be seen as being the result of the analyst becoming a new developmental object for the patient (Fonagy, 1999; Hurry, 1998). Fonagy makes the