Self-examination and self-critique: for psychoanalytic patients, this is the conduit to growth. Yet within the field, psychoanalysts haven't sufficiently utilized their own methodology or subjected their own preferred approaches to systematic and critical self-examination. Across theoretical divides, psychoanalytic writers and clinicians have too often responded to criticism with defensiveness rather than reflectivity.

Introduction Lewis Aron, Sue Grand, and Joyce Slochower 1. Going too far: Relational heroines and relational excess Joyce Slochower 2. The emergence of the relational tradition: Lewis Aron interviews Jay Greenberg Jay Greenberg and Lewis Aron 3. Relational psychoanalysis and its discontents Emanuel Berman 4. Forms of equality in relational psychoanalysis David Mark 5. Needed analytic relationships and the disproportionate relational focus on enactments Steven Stern 6. Inaction and Puzzlement as Interaction: Keeping Attention in Mind Stephen Seligman 7. The analyst's private space: Spontaneity, ritual, psychotherapeutic action, and self-care Ken Corbett 8. The unobtrusive relational analyst and psychoanalytic companioning Robert Grossmark 9. The things we carry: Finding/creating the object and the analyst's self-reflective participation Steven H. Cooper 10. Relational theory in socio-historical context: Implications for technique Lynne Layton