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In my practice of analysis, I intend to construct, co-create, and enter into a therapeutic dyadic system, and evaluate the progress. I will describe the intentions I have formed and subscribe to after 50 years of analytic practice using “I” when what I refer to is personal, and “the analyst” when what I refer to is more general.
As compared to what each analysand and I co-create in a particular dyad, by construct I mean intended contributions to the analytic process that I personally bring to my analytic therapy with any of my analysands. These general facilitating provisions involve my construction of the setting, my understanding and intimacy with myself, and theory I employ to understand my analysand, myself, and the dyad we will co-create.
Each analyst makes choices of the physical and aesthetic arrangements of office, furnishings, times for practice, times away for meetings and vacations, and range of fees that work for him or her and hopefully will allow optimal coordination with present and future analysands. The goal behind the pragmatics is to construct “arrangements that establish a frame of friendliness, consistency, reliability, and an ambience of safety” (Lichtenberg, Lachmann, & Fosshage, 1996, p. 88; see also Lichtenberg, 2005).
Analysts bring to every clinical situation as a minimum a depth of self-knowledge about personal motives and values, patterns