Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis

Judy Leopold Kantrowitz, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She has been an Associate Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School and is currently a corresponding member. She is the author of three books, The Patient's Impact on the Analyst (1996); Writing about Patients: Responsibilities, Risks, and Ramifications (2006), and Myths of Termination: What patients can teach psychoanalysts about endings (2014).

• 1. The Role of the Patient-Analyst "Match" in the Outcome of Psychoanalysis 2. The Analyst's Style and its Impact on the Analytic Process: Overcoming a Patient-analyst Stalemate 3. Impasses in Psychoanalysis: Overcoming Resistance in Situations of Stalemate 4. The Uniqueness of the Patient–Analyst Pair: Approaches for Elucidating the Analyst's Role 5. The Beneficial Aspects Of The Patient-Analyst Match 6. Appreciation of the Importance of the Patient-Analyst "Match": Clara Thompson 7. The Triadic Match: The Interactive Effect of Supervisor, Candidate, and Patient 8. The External Observer and the Lens of the Patient-Analyst Match 9. A Different Perspective On The Therapeutic Process: The Impact Of The Patient On The Analyst 10. The Role of the Preconscious in Psychoanalysis 11. The patient-analyst match in a second analysis when a patient returns 12. Reflections on Mortality: a patient faces death; an analyst grieves 13. The Analyst: Disabled and Enabled by What’s Personal

"Comprised of papers written over three decades, this volume demonstrates both Kantrowitz’s prescience in her early attention to the intersubjective and the gradual evolution and refinement of her thought. Drawing upon the dual perspectives of research and clinical work, these papers provide an organizing structure within which such heterogeneous issues as patient-analyst match, impasse, and the impact of the analyst’s own life experiences may be understood. A wealth of detailed clinical examples bring the author’s ideas alive for the reader. The book is both a pleasure and an intellectually enriching experience to read."Lucy LaFarge, Regional Editor for North America of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College."There have always been two people in the treatment room. Judy Kantrowitz, early in her work, corrected the imbalance of a 'one-person' psychology, whereby only the patient's qualities determine the outcome. More recently, Kantrowitz focuses on a new imbalance, where the work may be dangerously analyst-centered. Her clarity about the fundamental analytic responsibility – 'to remain inside and outside of the process' – enables her to tell the story of American psychoanalysis over the last fifty years, in a way that is both ardent and balanced, personal and scholarly. The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match is a treasure."Ellen Pinsky, PsyD, author, Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: Mortal Gifts"Judy Kantrowitz demonstrates a whole new way of looking at an on-going treatment. With clear, comfortable language and vivid vignettes, Kantrowitz follows the configuration of the match not only into the areas we expect, such as impasses and supervision, but also such areas as the changes undergone by both analyst and patient in the course of the treatment, the handling of the frame, and even the impact of shaking events in the analyst’s life. Other than supporting the treatment objective, Kantrowitz has no axe of grind, is not a moralizer or a partisan. She is always sympathetic to both parties in treatment, and draws on relevant contributions from all psychoanalytic quarters. What she offers is subtle, experienced psychoanalytic empiricism and a broadened appreciation of what has been an uncomfortable area for practitioners."Lawrence Friedman, M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical College, Instructor, Psychoanalytic Association of New York"Judy Kantrowitz integrates in a unique and admirable way a research perspective in her clinical work as a psychoanalyst. Her work is characterised by originality, courage, scientific care, honesty and relentless self-reflection combined with professional sensitivity, human warmth and a deeply human interest in psychic suffering snd it's complex causes. During her psychoanalytic training in-the 1970’s, and against the prevailing zeitgeist of one person psychology she developed the intersubjective concept of the match between psychoanalyst and analysand. In the papers in this unique volume, this concept is constantly further developed, clinically deepened and linked with new experiences, reflections and observations on changing 'zeitgeists' within and outside the psychoanalytic community: a deep source of inspiration for generations of psychoanalysts and researchers!"Prof Dr Marianna Leuzinger-Bohleber, Former head of the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt , Germany. Training Psychoanalyst DPV( IPA)"In a stunningly discerning report of the ever unique personal aspects of patient-analyst engagements, Judy Kantrowitz offers us one of the most wise and mature overviews of the psychoanalytic process I know. Her open-minded and deep scholarship is wed to a keen clinical sensitivity that transcends pluralistic partiality. As a result, she not only brings together our varied understandings but notably and most movingly extends them. This is a master class in serious thinking about psychoanalysis as a therapy, about analytic inquiry as a personally touching study of how hard it is to be a person. It is also a pleasure to read. Reading this, I learned much, but I also was moved to hear the richness of the music of psychoanalysis freed from the static of partisanship. Kantrowitz is a maestro, and this work is a profound contribution." Warren S. Poland – author, Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis