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Psychoanalytic theorists have lately come to acknowledge what practicing clinicians have long recognized: the importance of flexibility in psychotherapeutic technique. Adjusting the transference-countertransference expectations to the developmental level of each particular patient has become increasingly necessary as psychodynamic therapists work in depth with a wider range of “difficult” patients.
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Goldman, S.B. To be or not to be a real object: Monitoring the therapeutic relationship. J Contemp Psychother 18, 164–178 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00946363
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