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With the publication of this issue, The International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy has become an annual. Consistent with an editorial policy “dedicated to the ultimate enhancement of psychotherapeutic techniques,” the volume is characterized by a strong clinical orientation. It contains twenty-five papers—only a few of which can be mentioned here—in four sections: the therapeutic relationship and alliance, the treatment of narcissistic disorders, general problems in technique, and specific issues in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
In his article “Technical Considerations of the Therapeutic and Working Alliances,” Robert Dickes discusses the complex interweave of the alliances and the transference. The therapeutic alliance is viewed as the full-scale rapport that includes all the elements favorable to the progress of therapy (e.g., motivation for treatment based on ego-alien symptoms, positive transference, and the rational or real relationship). The working alliance is viewed as more limited in scope, a factor contributing to the therapeutic alliance, analogous to Freud's analytic pact,