Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing is both a personal analytic credo and a multidimensional approach to thinking about clinical interaction. The book s central theme is that of analytic needed relationships the science and art of co-creating unique, evolving relational experiences fitted to each patient s implicit therapeutic aims and needs.

Steven Stern argues that, while we need psychoanalytic theories to "grow the receptors and processors" necessary to sense, understand, and connect with our patients, these often tend to frame the therapist s...

Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing is both a personal analytic credo and a multidimensional approach to thinking about clinical interaction. The book s central theme is that of analytic needed relationships the science and art of co-creating unique, evolving relational experiences fitted to each patient s implicit therapeutic aims and needs.

Steven Stern argues that, while we need psychoanalytic theories to "grow the receptors and processors" necessary to sense, understand, and connect with our patients, these often tend to frame the therapist s...