All of us doing psychoanalytic work, whether psychoanalytic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis, are familiar with the problems and values that our countertransference engenders. A new slant on this phenomenon is a paradigm called “compasion fatigue”. Joel Kanter critiques this new construct lucidly in an article that can be found on the Clare Winnicott: Life and Work web site. To read “Compassion Fatigue and Secondary Traumatization: A Second Look” click here and then select Clinical Applications. I recommend this article and others that can be found on this site.