Little, M. (1957). 'R'—the Analyst's Total Response to his Patient's Needs. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 38:240-254.

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(1957). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 38:240-254

'R'—the Analyst's Total Response to his Patient's Needs

Margaret Little Author Information

I. INTRODUCTION

This paper contains a number of themes each of which requires a paper to itself. In considering them together in their relatedness I am having to condense, and am risking being misunderstood, owing to the inevitable distortion and loss of clarity; at the same time I am making the one paper long and weighty. I hope to do more justice to my themes later, when I can develop them further separately.

The ideas that I am putting forward follow on from those expressed in my previous paper, 'Counter-Transference and the Patient's Response to it'. They have come to me both through analyses of my patients and through my own analysis. I will illustrate them with some material from the analysis of one patient in particular.

Most of the patients I have analysed come into the category known as 'psychopaths' and 'character disorders', some of them being quite seriously ill and disturbed people, with a great deal of psychotic anxiety. Although much of what I have to sa

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