TY - JOUR A1 - Bass, Anthony T1 - Review essay Stephen A. Mitchell: Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis: An Integration JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 683-702. N2 - This essay explores the sometimes uncanny quality of unconscious experience and unconscious communication that often characterizes life in psychoanalytic relationships. As Ferenczi noted some 70 years ago, the psychoanalytic relationship may >significantly promote the development of subtler manifestations of receptivity.< Special qualities of unconscious receptivity and deep points of contact in the psychoanalytic relationship are explored, with reference to the history of psychoanalytic ideas (e.g., Freud, Ferenczi, Singer, Loewald, Symington) and to findings from other fields such as contemporary quantum science. Clinical vignettes are provided to illustrate such phenomena. Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bass, Anthony T1 - Review Essay: Beyond the Fear of Intimacy JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 717-725. N2 - This essay elaborates on some of the ideas set forth in >It Takes One to Know One< in response to Peter Shabad's and Paul Williams's commentaries on that paper. In particular, the distinctions between process and mental structure and between unconscious process and relationship are explored and developed. An attempt is made to clarify some of the similarities and differences between British object relations perspectives and some U.S. relational ideas as they apply to these distinctions and their relevance to clinical technique. Y1 - 2001 ER -