Abstract
“It is my belief that in all psychotherapeutic work with patients, psychotherapists and analysts have to provide two distinct types of relating from their side. One side of relating is covered by interpretative work, which helps the patient to gain insight into his internal conflicts and resolve them. The other side of relating, which is harder to define, is more in the manner of providing coverage for the patient's self-experience in the clinical situation. The knack of any psychotherapeutic work is to strike the right balance within these two types of functions in the therapist.”
from Masud Khan The Privacy of Self