1st Edition

The Wounded Healer Counter-Transference from a Jungian Perspective

By David Sedgwick Copyright 1994
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Countertransference is an important part of the analytical process. It is concerned with the analyst's emotional response to the patient. As such, it can be a particularly difficult aspect of the analytical setting and especially so because of the threat of possible sexual involvement with the patient. At present there is little available on this difficult topic. Jungian analyst David Sedgwick... Read more
Acknowledgements. Introduction. Jungian Approaches to Countertransference: A Review. Case Illustrations. Conclusions. Notes. References. Index.

Biography

David Sedgwick is a Jungian analyst in Charlottesville, Virginia, and is also a clinical psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Jung and Searles: A comparative study.