1st Edition

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Independent Tradition

Edited By Stanley Ruszczynski, Sue Johnson Copyright 1999
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

This book is a collection of papers to which seven senior members of the British Association of Psychotherapists have contributed. Each essay discusses a problem or impasse the author has encountered in the course of her clinical work with mainly borderline and severely traumatized patients. In this context the writers have all chosen those psychoanalytic concepts, mainly from the Independent... Read more
1 Who and whose I am: the emergence of the true self 2 The concept of internal cohabitation 3 How far is transference interpretation essential to psychic change? 4 The absent mother: splitting as a narcissistic attempt to find a solution 5 The move from object-relating to object-usage: a clinical example 6 The potential for trauma in the transference and countertransference 7 Erotic transference and its vicissitudes in the countertransference 8 Dreaming and day-dreaming

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Stnley Ruszczynski, Sue Johnson,