The therapeutic relationship is essential in psychotherapy. In Godly Spiritual Psychology the true therapist which is always prezent behinde the terapist or the inner therapist is God. For Kohut, a treatment is successful when the analysand, giving himself up to the energy of the analytic process, becomes able to reactivate in the object transference of the Self those needs that were obstructed in childhood. Only this gradual acquisition of empathic contact with mature Self-objects is the essence of psychoanalytic healing.