This book provides an exploration of the clinical practice of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. It explores the ways psychoanalysts and other clinicians are taught to evade direct emotional connections with their patients. Sullivan, suggesting that relatedness is the basis of emotional health, examines the universal struggle between socially oriented energies that struggle toward truth and narcissistic impulses that push us to take refuge in lies.She maintains that, rather than making interpretations, it is the clinician’s capacity to bring relatedness to the clinical encounter which is the crucial factor

这本书提供了精神分析和分析心理学的临床实践探索。它探索了精神分析学家和其他临床医生被教导如何避免与患者的直接情感联系。Sullivan认为亲情是情感健康的基础，他考察了社会导向的能量与自恋冲动之间的普遍斗争，这两种能量为追求真理而斗争，而自恋冲动促使我们在谎言中寻求庇护。她坚持认为，而不是做出解释，这是临床医生的能力，使相关的临床遭遇，这是至关重要的因素