The author examines how various practitioners have approached this subject since Freud. He shows how each has shed useful new light on this issue, leading to a diversity of points of view, thereby justifying the idea of the 'process' within psychoanalytic treatment.

Series Editor's Foreword , Introduction , Some preliminary observations , Apprehending psychoanalytic treatment and processes , Representing the psychoanalytic process , Contributions by certain authors , Initial encounters , Movements and changes , The nature of defence mechanisms and anxieties , The heterogenous nature of psychic functioning , Transferences , Sándor Ferenczi: a negative transference somewhere between transference love and love for psychoanalysis , Esther, or a transference love which dare not speak its name , Psychic homosexuality and transference , Negativising transference , A historical example of negativising transference: the “young Russian” known as “the Wolf Man” , Narcissism and the psychoanalytic process , Different levels of listening , Mr E , The process as a combination of suffering, pain, and pleasure , The analytic process and the question of trauma , Conclusion