Director's paper calls our attention to the lack of attention to addiction in the relational literature. Clinical case studies of patients with chemical dependency may provide a window into the complexities of the mind-body connection in psychoanalysis. The transference-countertransference dimensions of the treatment of addicted individuals offer the therapist a privileged glimpse of the patient's internal object relations and thereby enable the therapist to gain greater understanding of the patient's characteristic problems in relationships with others.