1st Edition

Countertransference Theory, Technique, Teaching

Edited By Athina Alexandris, Grigoris Vaslamatzis Copyright 1993
288 Pages
by Routledge

285 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Preface , Introduction , Countertransference: Theoretical and Technical Aspects , Countertransference , The analytic management and interpretation of projective identification , Countertransference and the concept of projective counteridentification , Clinical Illustrations of Countertransference: Theoretical and Technical Considerations , A parallel voyage of mourning for patient and analyst within the transference-countertransference voyage , Countertransference and primitive communication , Countertransferential bodily feelings and the containing function of the analyst , Countertransference reactions commonly present in the treatment of patients with borderline personality organization , Projective identification, countertransference, and hospital treatment , Some thoughts on insight and its relation to countertransference , The patient-therapist fit and countertransference reaction in the light of frame theory , Aspects of Countertransference–Transference Interaction in Supervision , Transference–countertransference interactions in the supervisory situation: some observations , Some transference–countertransference issues of the supervisory situation: a dream about the supervisor

Biography

Athina Alexandris