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There is a perceptible shift taking place in the relative roles of here-and-now transference interpretation and genetic interpretations in psychodynamic therapy in favor of the former. Bauer describes the analysis of transference in the here-and-now in workmanlike, clearly written, almost non-technical, prose. He writes even-handedly, describing both the merits of such interpretation, and possible misuse and resistances to its employment in patient and therapist alike.
He forthrightly states that he is not purporting to make a new contribution but rather to summarize and present current thinking in the matter. His references to the literature are copious and cogent. He shows how emphasis in the analysis of the transference in the here-and-now has been a basic, albeit subdominant, theme in the literature from Ferenczi onward.
He is somewhat less explicit than I would have liked him to be on the reconceptualization of transference as contributed to by both participants, and as plausible rather than distorted. I would have also preferred more on the significance of this changed definition of transference as an aspect of the more general emerging theme of social-constructivism in the theory of