Analytic Encounter

"The Analytic Encounter: Transference and Human Relationship" is much more than a handbook or text about professional morals and ethics; rather, it is a concentrated, compact series of essays about human symbolic interactionism. Mario Jacoby, through the Inner City Books publications, offers introductory lessons in general human behavior and the observing self along with the professional emphasis of the psychological and/or psychotheraputic practice. My reading experiences of Inner City Books leads me to believe that they make it a point to provide a publishing service that gives quality value in the psychological transaction; i.e., you get more than what you paid for in the analytic encounter. In simplicity, there is complexity. One need only read between the lines of the text for a multitude of "interconnections" to truly appreciate the "sage advice" from "Herr Director." The unfortunate part of most analytical psychologies revolves around the more or less "obscure language" usage of medical and/or psychoanalytical terminology. Respectfully, I think Mario Jacoby makes a "sure-footed" effort to reverse this situation by explaining psychoanalytic human interactions in a polite...but somewhat, parochial fashion...for the layman as well. Reportedly, Freud was very much interested in "slips of the tongue," and in "jokes"...of which there is a never ending supply coming from the human mind. Grimly, what you do in the professional work place can have overwhelming and long term repercussions. In the professional arena of expertise, we are all "interconnected" in or through the everyday analytic encounter; with this in mind, one can safely deduce why medical malpractice insurance is so expensive to everyone. Candidly, I highly recommmend this handbook to all practicing professionals who deal with the public in a private way; especially, to attorneys and/or lawyers who also touch the deeper psychological issues, emotional problems, and narcissistic disorders and predicaments of human life; especially, for those who deal in divorces and trust involvements.Perhaps the "obscurity" issues of medical psychiatry, psychoanalysis, analytical psychology, and self-object psychology grew out of the "darkened views" of a cloistered cellular priesthood and its overcontrol and domination of human psyhcosocial and sexual activities. Human sexuality was not exactly the strongest domain for those who lived secluded in denial; yet, as Dr. Inman thought, parochial symbolism was only a more glorified and disguised sexuality in religious issues and rituals...and so it is the world over in differing ways. To say that Western Civilization is or has been inhibited with regards to missionary human sexuality...would be an understatement. Transference and Countertransference may very well be a polite and disguised way of discussing the detailed machinations of the "sex-lust-love-money" connections of human and business involvements. Should one become deeply interested in a