I A CLEAR CONCEPTUALIZATION of the therapeutic process and of what in a relationship contributes to therapeutic outcome, remains somewhat elusive and certainly controversial in the psychoanalytic literature. Despite Sullivan's note that interpersonal acts are "reciprocal" and "transformative" (Mullahy, 1945), Laing, Phillipson, and Lee (1966) remark that "Psychoanalytic theory has no constructs...
