Using vivid clinical material, broad theoretical references, and decades of experience as an analyst, Dr. Sugarman will explore the total situation in child analysis — and why it tends to elicit particularly intense countertransference responses and enactments. He defines transference and countertransference as the interpersonalization of mental structures, examining them not only in response to child patients and their caregivers, but also teachers, drivers, and other seemingly peripheral figures. His approach is nuanced, clear, and clinically grounded.