The consultant's role in resolving impasses in therapeutic relationships. A response to the work of Sue Nathanson Elkind

Elkind invites us to consider how a consultant, an active third party, might help repair therapeutic impasses. The consultant is no control analyst or supervisor engaged privately by the therapist and remaining outside the patient's awareness. The consultant is there, in there. This has significant consequences and, were it to take hold, can revise in profound ways how we come to regard the practice of analytic therapy.