The answers

The author responds in summary to the criticisms of the various contributors, identifying the three central points which, in her opinion, have emerged overall: the importance of the context, the development of the subject and the clinical implications of her therapeutic model. Having acknowledged the validity of the criticisms and valued the arguments of his colleagues, she reiterates her positions and remains firm in them. The most articulated answer is to Roggero's objection, which concerned the birth of the subject as an expression of self-determination not borrowed from the outside. Harrison argues that such self-determination comes at the moment when the patient goes beyond the relationship with the analyst and changes something in his or her relationship with his or her original context in the broadest sense.