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Alan Kindler gave us some skillfully presented excerpts of his difficult-to-manage analysis of Joanna Churchill. He gave us verbatim details of the actual dialogue, as well as some of his own concurrent subjective experiences that influenced the nature and content of his interventions. With all of this, Alan takes us into his consulting room and invites us to reexperience with him (and with his patient) the vicissitudes of the analytic process created by its two participants. This is as it should be to enable us to learn whatever we can from the experience of the encounter between Joanna Churchill and Alan Kindler.
I shall take advantage of this exemplary clinical presentation and jump right into my exploration, with only a very few reliminary remarks related to my approach. As is usually necessary, I had to traverse this analytic process more than once, in order to find my bearing and come away from each attempt with some additional grasp of what I had witnessed. The experiences themselves reported by Alan are not open to question; their meaning and Alan's responses to them, however, are. In this endeavor I shall try to understand what Alan did and what were the discernible results of his interventions from within his