Psychoanalysis uses the key framework of "working with the transference," a powerful tool for self-understanding. Transference is what the patient brings to analysis from prior important relationships ...

Stephen Grosz’s books show a new generation the inner workings of psychoanalysis. Credit...Gareth McConnell for The New York Times Supported by By Daphne Merkin To many of us, what goes on in analysis ...

With their expert knowledge of the human mind and its desires, you might expect psychoanalysts’ relationships to be free from the chaos that characterises most of our romantic lives. But about halfway ...