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Ogden: “In the absence of the experience of being recognized, the infant’s capacity to see creatively atrophies; the world becomes dull or confusing.”

Every aspect of an analyst's clinical activity is determined in part by his or her personal psychology. — Owen Renick Analytic Interaction: Conceptualizing Technique in Light of the Analyst’s Irreducible Subjectivity

If the analyst does not get emotionally involved sooner or later in a manner that he had not intended, the analysis will not proceed to a successful conclusion. — Dale Boesky The Psychoanalytic Process and Its Components

I think we tend to give lip service to the important truth that an analyst cannot, ultimately, know a patient's point of view; an analyst can only know his or her own point of view. — Owen Renick Analytic Interaction

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The French do not speak of analytic "training" (education, in French) because training means subordination of the trainee to the purposes of the trainer, e.g., what one does with a horse; they refer instead to the "formation" (formation) of the student analyst. — Owen Renick

Therapists in training would benefit greatly from the inclusion of assertiveness training into their graduate programs. It could help them overcome their natural aversion to conflict and teach them how to identify and express negative feelings constructively. — Karen Maroda