The initial psychoanalytic interaction -- Once a week frequency -- Paranoia and the object of dread -- Couples treatment and the quest for analytic contact -- Stumbling in the counter-transference -- Catching my balance in the counter-transference -- Combative and reactive patients -- Embedded enactments and emotional truth -- The limits of our value and the value of our limits -- Keeping the faith when working with turbulent patients -- Phantasies of dread, demand, and desire -- Captured and absorbed into the familiar -- The give and take in projective identification.
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