Searles H F
Int J Psychoanal Psychother. 1976;5:145-204.
This paper suggests that the analyst (or therapist) can best understand transitional-object phenomena as being tributary to, or consisting in various different facets of, the--for him in his work with patients--more comprehensive realm of therapeutic symobiosis. The author highlights data concerning objects or phenomena which are transitional for both patient and analyst concomitantly. He suggests that the patient's symptoms have become, early in the phase of therapeutic symbiosis, transitional objects for both patient and analyst simultaneously. As with the patient's symptoms, so with his transference images of the analyst: it is suggested that, in order for any effective transference analysis to occur with any patient, whether neurotic, borderline, or psychotic, the analyst must have come to accept at least a transitional-object degree--if not more deeply symbiotic degree--of relatedness with the particular transference image which is holding sway presently in the analysis.
本文认为，分析师（或治疗师）若要最好地理解过渡性客体现象，可将其视为从属于治疗共生这一更为综合的领域，或者认为它由该领域的各种不同方面所构成，而治疗共生对于他在治疗患者的工作而言是更为全面的领域。作者强调了关于对患者和分析师双方而言均具有过渡性的客体或现象的数据。他指出，在治疗共生阶段的早期，患者的症状就已同时成为患者和分析师双方的过渡性客体。就患者的症状而言是如此，就他对分析师的移情意象而言亦是如此：有人认为，为了能与任何患者（无论是神经症患者、边缘型患者还是精神病患者）进行任何有效的移情分析，分析师必须至少达到一种与当前在分析中占主导地位的特定移情意象的过渡性客体程度的关联——若不是更深层次的共生程度的关联的话。
