The affective model of change is a dyadic model of transformation. I
wish to take this space to honor my own formative and transformative
others.

D. W. Winnicott and Habib Davanloo have been essential sources of
influence. Like so many others who became entranced with his work,
I have had a profound relationship with Winnicott, albeit in transitional
space, which is probably where most lasting teaching and learning takes
place. My other mentor has been Habib Davanloo: once exposed to the
effectiveness, intense experience, and relentless authenticity of his work,
I was hooked; my life has not been the same since. Though I am sure
that much of what follows is unrecognizable to him, I know that none
of it would exist without his unique work.

David Malan was the source of my first short-term dynamic psy-
chotherapy epiphany. His exhilaratingly aggressive hypothesizing and
active intervention took nothing away from psychodynamic psy-
chotherapy; if anything, they seemed to make it more muscular. His
courageous, empirically based plainspeaking has been a beacon of clar-
ity and integrity.

At the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology of the City Uni-
versity of New York, Steve Ellman, Gilbert Voyat, and Paul Wachtel
demonstrated through teaching and personal example that clinical work
and intellectual rigor are not only compatible but deeply potentiating.
Paul Wachtel was instrumental in articulating what I was beginning to
suspect: that there could be a disjunction between psychoanalytic the-
ory and psychoanalytic practice. I have greatly appreciated his implicit
mentoring and explicit friendship over the years.

My own teaching, more than anything else, has sharpened my
thinking and forced me to face blind spots, imprecision, and inconsis-
tencies: my students in the CUNY Doctoral Program in Clinical Psy-
chology, the Bellevue Hospital Psychology Internship Program, the
AET Institute, and currently Adelphi University's Derner Institute have
spurred me to keep refining what I have to say.

I am grateful to my patients for having allowed me to have an
impact and for giving me their trust and engagement; I feel privileged

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