Editorial

Abstract

In this issue, among other things, we go into the “problem of the analytic relationship and the transferential and countertransferential dynamics, which develop in it: Transference and countertransference in the Adlerian ‘setting’ and Transference, paratactic distortion and Adlerian therapy. Although countertransferential reactions have a ubiquitous character, however, most reports, articles and clinical case descriptions, submitted by practitioners, contain abundant material relating only to transference, without analysts daring to reveal their own countertransferential emotions and feelings, nor what has been done or said or interpreted and in what way within a setting, perhaps for fear of being judged, criticized or deemed incompetent by colleagues, should they come to reveal what has been experienced or acted upon with respect to their analyzed. Countertransference, considered for many years as an undesirable phenomenon, has been deliberately neglected, when, instead, recognizing its role and effects would have indicated how to broaden the field of treatment, to make the analytic relationship a mutually more human and richer experience”