Over the last quarter century in American psychoanalysis, analysts of various schools have been especially interested in questioning traditional ideas about the analyst's stance, and in particular have probed the nature and role of the analyst's subjective experience in the analytic situation. In this book, Sandra Buechler presents an affect-based reenvisioning of the analytic attitude, and in so doing makes a significant contribution to our thinking about the conditions for generating a therapeutic process. The book is also a work