Who do the words come from? A psychoanalytical tale

My first experience in analysis with a classically-trained analyst left an unexpected but profound imprint on me. After enduring that kind of one-person analysis for eleven years I was not left with a favourable impression of the method. Originally trained as a classical psychoanalyst, I have since chosen to work intersubjectively and interactively and I am shifting more deliberately and with more conviction toward an assimilative integrative psychotherapy approach. In this paper I tell the story of my personal analysis and outline the conclusions I have drawn from it that created a seismic shift in my way of thinking and working as a psychoanalyst. I am under no illusions that the conclusions drawn by others from my paper may differ from my own.