On the preceding pages of this issue you were drawn into the work of a gifted clinician and an extraordinary patient. The moments of time taken from their therapy sessions were not so usual for them or indeed for many clinicians who engage directly with an adult patient's memories of childhood trauma. The patient's pain was palpable and regrettably familiar. What is unique about the Miller article is its consideration of the nature of a distinctive eroticized relational transference that, perhaps, often unfolds when a patient has suffered repetitive terrorizing sexual assaults in the earliest years of life. Miller questions her reader as a gentle muse; she wonders what has occurred in the treatment that made it possible for her patient to move slowly and deeply into a safe therapeutic space, one that allowed the working through of an unbearably terrifying inner world populated by memories of sexual assaults at the hands of an alcoholic father and an uncle from the age of six onward. Miller's musings