My therapist is relational. The therapy uses the relationship and its fluctuations to reflect old patterns and changes, with special emphasis on producing new repertoires of experience, especially interpersonally. There is also an element of revised self psychology with attachment blended in. In that model, the goals of self cohesion (with capacities for intimacy, affect regulation, self-reflection) are conceptualized as part of a self-other matrix. With these newer forms of psychoanalysis, the analyst acknowledges his inevitable participation and co-creation of experience while still putting the patient first. And the idea of the self is more one of interdependence rather than independence.