Countertransference: Theory, Technique, Teaching

ISBN-13: 9781855750289 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 288 str.

Athina Alexandris; Grigoris Vaslamatzid; A. Alexandris

Opis

The contributors to this book 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. 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. 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. Since then, several distinguished analysts have continued the work, exploring in the process a variety of complimentary concepts: Projective identification and counter-identification and their clinical relevance; the notion of the containing function of the therapist; unusual countertransference reactions, and the relationship between primitive aspects of the patient's personality structure and the intensity of countertransference. this book will further illuminate the subject and draw attention to the substantial contribution which the recognition and utilization of the countertransference can bring to the analytic interaction.

O autorze

Athina Alexandris