Countertransference: Theory, Technique, Teaching - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855750287 ISBN 13: 9781855750289

Publisher: Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

A collection of papers on the Oedipus complex, divided into three parts: theory, practice and supervision. The contributors, who include Joyce McDougall, Hanna Segal, Otto Kernberg and Leon Grinberg, invite the reader to explore with them the processes affecting the therapist's mind - and, occasionally his body - during psychoanalytic therapy, and the reasons why the therapist thinks, feels, and reacts in a particular way. The full significance of these processes, referred to as "counter-transference" since Freud's time, has recently been recognized, resulting in the therapist's use of additional resources so that he or she can understand and help the patient more effectively. In the 1950s and 1960s, Paula Heimann and Heinrich Racker, following on Freud's own observations, made important contributions to the study of the countertransference, considerably enlarging upon the concept and re-evaluating the nature of the psychoanalytic therapeutic relationship as a result.

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Athina Alexandris

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855750287
• ISBN 13: 9781855750289
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Alexandris Athina, Vaslamatzis Grigoris