Psychic change in the analyst

This paper addresses the use of one's mother tongue as a means of facilitating access to splitoff regions of the mind. It also looks at the different situation of strong emotional impact for the analyst which requires, upon recognition, careful reflection and analysis in order to separate the analyst's own transference from the counter-transference. The latter is taken as the total of all the analyst's reactions towards what the patient is and what he/she brings into analysis.