Notes
1 The unconscious can process emotional material in its own good time, producing derivatives in dreams, symbolic langauge, transference-countertransference configurations, and so forth.
2 “Irreducible irrational involvement” (Renik, Citation1993; Citation1995) cannot be eliminated. Our “internal and external dependencies, anxieties, and pathological defenses…[respond] to every event of the analytic situation” (Racker, Citation1968, p. 132).
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Richard M. Billow
Richard M. Billow is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, and Director of the Group Program, Derner Institute, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY.