Beginning Analysis presents a robust and original attempt at using qualitative research methods to investigate the processes and core dynamics underlying initial interviews in psychoanalysis. This book begins by providing a detailed foundation of a research project conducted as part of the European Psychoanalytical Federation’s Ten-Year European Scientific Initiative, in which the Working Party on Initiating Psychoanalysis (WPIP) was created to investigate “the specific dynamics of preliminary interviews, how psychoanalysts work with them, and what it is in these dynamics that leads a potential patient to enter full analysis (or not)” (p. 4). Written by an international team of eight senior psychoanalysts and members of the WPIP, the book compiles the work of hundreds of psychoanalysts who contributed their time and attention to investigating case material from initial psychoanalytic interviews. Analysis of the results presented here not only challenged the authors’ initial hypotheses, but also led to the creation of novel theoretical concepts that encourage further exploration, research, and reflection. As stated by the authors, it is crucial to understand how psychoanalysts really work, not simply how we would like to think they work (p. 3). I believe the authors have achieved this goal through their detailed, methodologically sound, and thoroughly elaborated work. Reading this book has encouraged me, as a clinician-in-training, to consider the unconscious dynamics underlying initial interviews and overcome my apprehension regarding initial sessions. Through their description of clinical case materials, the authors have normalized the experience of uncertainty that accompanies the initiation of a therapeutic relationship and highlighted the importance of openness and receptivity in the analyst to experience the patient as an individual while co-creating a space where change can be facilitated.

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开端分析：关于启动精神分析的过程

开始分析提出了使用定性研究方法来研究精神分析初始访谈的过程和核心动力的强大而原始的尝试。本书首先提供了作为欧洲精神分析联合会十年欧洲科学计划的一部分进行的研究项目的详细基础，其中成立了启动精神分析工作组 (WPIP) 以调查“初步访谈的具体动态，精神分析师如何与他们合作，以及在这些动态中是什么导致潜在患者进行全面分析（或不进行）”（第 4 页）。由八名高级心理分析师和 WPIP 成员组成的国际团队撰写，这本书汇集了数百名精神分析师的工作，他们贡献了他们的时间和注意力来调查最初的精神分析访谈中的案例材料。对此处呈现的结果的分析不仅挑战了作者的最初假设，而且导致了新的理论概念的产生，鼓励了进一步的探索、研究和反思。正如作者所说，了解精神分析师如何真正的工作，我们就不能简单地怎么样去思考他们的工作（第3页）。我相信作者已经通过他们详细、方法论合理且详尽阐述的工作实现了这一目标。作为一名受训临床医生，阅读这本书鼓励我考虑初始访谈背后的无意识动态，并克服我对初始会话的担忧。通过他们对临床案例材料的描述，作者将伴随治疗关系开始的不确定性体验标准化，并强调了分析师开放性和接受性的重要性，以将患者体验为个体，同时共同创造一个可以改变的空间可以方便。