THE ALLIANCE CONCEPTS

The alliance concepts are defined as being the description of the dyna mic interaction of all cognitive and emotional factors which promote t he analytic process. The historical significance and the development o f the three predominant alliance concepts, these being the implicit '' standard alliance'' of Freud, Zetzel's therapeutic alliance and Greens on's working alliance, are to be described. All alliance concepts refe r to a general, essentially reality-oriented relationship anchored in the personal and the human domain, which forms the background for the therapeutic process and the basis for the analytic interpretation work . Nonetheless, the dynamic force of the alliances is substantiated by factors of the transference. The alliances are therefore not faced wit h the transference, but rather with the resistance.