Forewords by Theodore Jacobs and Donnel Stern

1. The Role of the Patient-Analyst "Match" in the Outcome of Psychoanalysis 2. The Analyst's Style and its Impact on the Analytic Process: Overcoming a Patient-analyst Stalemate 3. Impasses in Psychoanalysis: Overcoming Resistance in Situations of Stalemate 4. The Uniqueness of the Patient-Analyst Pair: Approaches for Elucidating the Analyst's Role 5. The Beneficial Aspects Of The Patient-Analyst Match 6. Appreciation of the Importance of the Patient-Analyst "Match": Clara Thompson 7. The Triadic Match: The Interactive Effect of Supervisor, Candidate, and Patient 8. The External Observer and the Lens of the Patient-Analyst Match 9. A Different Perspective On The Therapeutic Process: The Impact Of The Patient On The Analyst 10. The Role of the Preconscious in Psychoanalysis 11. The patient-analyst match in a second analysis when a patient returns 12. Reflections on Mortality: a patient faces death; an analyst grieves 13. The Analyst: Disabled and Enabled by What's Personal