The first interview and countertransference (Gianina Micu)

Abstract: It is a certified fact that the therapeuticmeeting psychoanalyst-patient during thepreliminary interview engages theprotagonists in an explicitly convergentintercession, an agreement in theconscious register for a joint effort thataims to cure suffering and ameliorate selfknowledge. This facet of the relationdefines the therapeutic alliance. However,what happens in parallel, in the subsurfaceof the meeting implies, likewise from thebeginning, the more cryptic register of theunconscious, subtly looms in both thepatient’s precocious transferential movements and in the therapist’scountertransference response. The paper,centered mainly on the latter aspect, setsto give a possible answer to such inquiriesas how much, in what way and if theycould be traced so early in the cure, andespecially, to what extent are or could beconsidered (in) the key of the futureanalysis.