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With this issue Modern Psychoanalysis initiates a new feature: the publication of clinical material derived from a case of therapeutic analysis. This feature, which will appear from time to time in the future, is introduced herein with Dr. Evelyn Liegner's extensive report on the treatment of a psychotic woman in an outpatient setting. The report is interspersed with passages excerpted from the treatment sessions.
The Journal is privileged to present Liegner's report. One notable aspect of the treatment relationship discussed was the arousal of strong feelings and tendencies to action in the analyst in reaction to the patient's transference. She delineates the patterns of the patient's communications and the use of these induced feelings in her responses. The analyst's “style” as she intervenes to study and resolve pathological patterns of defense is clearly demonstrated.
The appearance of such case presentations in the Journal is prompted primarily by the belief that they provide intellectual stimulation to our readers. To students, in particular, we wish to point out that they are not published to illustrate how patients should be treated or to sanction one or another mode of intervention employed by the writer. In other words, these clinical reports are not presented to guide the student-reader on how to intervene with his/ her own patients. Each report simply constitutes an historical record of what happened between one patient and one analyst in the course of treatment.