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Much Material has been published by all the schools of psychotherapy on the subject of transference. In analytical psychology there is Jung's paper in the Collected Works entitled ‘The psychology of the transference’, (Jung, 1946, p. 163). Fordham, in ‘Notes on the transference’, adds many clinical considerations (Fordham, 1957, p. 62). Adler, in his chapter entitled ‘Methods of treatment in analytical psychology’, in the book Psychoanalytic techniques (1967) summarizes much of the additional material published on the transference (Adler, 1967, p. 338). Among other contributors he lists: Frey-Wehrlin (1962), (Henderson 1955), (Kraemer 1958), (Meier 1959), (Moody 1956), (Plaut 1956), (Prince 1959), (Whitmont 1961).
To write about the analyst's own involvement, however, throws one immediately up against the concern that one might interfere with the vessel or the retort and thereby interfere with and damage the process. (Jung 1944) states: ‘The vas bene clausum (well-sealed vessel) is a precautionary rule in alchemy very frequently mentioned, and is the equivalent of the magic circle. In both cases the idea is to protect what is within from the intrusion and admixture of what is without, as well as to prevent it from escaping.’
To write about one's own involvement with the process and the patient is to risk an intrusion and admixture of what is without; so that what is maintained within is in danger of being diluted. I will have more to say about this later. For now let me say that it might just be this intrusion of material from the outside that would act as the catalyst to produce the required insight.
The other objection, of course, is that one seldom likes to expose oneself in public. Again, it might just be this particular activity that would be of