Kraemer states that 'there is the fullest agreement among Jungian analysts that there can be no teaching of a "technique" of handling of transference'. He nevertheless proceeds to demonstrate a technique, or at least an approach in problems of transference. Using a 'typical' case of a depressed woman patient for illustration, he compares the Jungian, freudian, and Kleinian analytic approaches to certain problems of transference and countertransference. Whether we use the concepts of archetypes, 'good' and 'bad' introjects, or Oedipal relationships, Kraemer advocates more use of the 'partnership transference pattern' in resolving transference-countertransference problems. By the partnership transference pattern the author seems to mean a departure from the neutral role of the analyst toward a controlled but more emotional interaction with the patient (somewhat similar to the synthetic role playing advocated by Alexander to provide a 'corrective emotional experience' for the patient).

At one point in therapy the patient chides Dr. Kraemer for having been