Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference: Perspectives from Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9781583917640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 292 str.

Joy Schaverien

Opis

"Gender, countertransference and the erotic transference" challenges taboos and extends existing theory with the spotlight on the female analysts experience. The potentially volatile topic of gender in psychotherapy is discussed with sensitivity to sexualities, difference and sexual orientation.
Joy Schaverien brings together a number of highly experienced clinicians, many with international reputations as theorists in the fields of analytical psychology, psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, to explore the connection between gender and the erotic transference. Part 1 shows how the analyst uses the countertransference. This is openly explored through themes such as, men who leave too soon, sexual issues in the transference, the therapists body, sexual difference and the challenging topic of sexual acting out and perversion in the analyst. Part 2 explores gender related issues such as, women who seek a woman therapist and the transferences of male patients working with female therapists. Part 3 offers close observation and detailed discussion of the erotic transference. Innovations in technique are considered with regard to mourning, female perversion, the meaning and purpose of the erotic transference, including heterosexual and lesbian erotic transferences, and individuation at the end of life.
"Gender, countertransference and the erotic transference" will be of great interest to experienced clinicians, students and trainees in psychoanalysis, analytical psychology, psychotherapy, counselling, the arts therapies and social work.

Spis treści

Schaverien, Introduction. Part I: Gender and the Erotic Transference. Schaverien, Men Who Leave Too Soon: Reflections on the Erotic Transference and Countertransference. Schaverien, Individuation at the End of Life: A Study of Erotic Transference and Countertransference. Schaverien, Supervising the Erotic Transference and Countertransference. Part II: Erotic Transferences and the Symbolic Function. Springer, Paying Homage to the Power of Love: Exceeding the Bounds of Professional Practice. Covington, Purposive Aspects of the Erotic Transference. Kavaler-Adler, Mourning and Erotic Transference. Ellis, Who Speaks? Who Listens? Different Voices and Different Sexualities. Part III: Women Working with Women. Williams, Women in Search of Women: Clinical Issues that Underlie a Woman's Search for a Female Therapist. Kavaler-Adler, Lesbian Homoerotic Transference in Dialectic with Developmental Mourning: On the Way to Symbolism from the Protosymbolic. Springer, Female Perversion: Scenes and Strategies in Analysis and Culture. Orbach, What Can We Learn From the Therapist's Body? Part IV: Historical Perspectives on Women Working with Men. Guttman, Sexual Issues in the Transference and Countertransference Between Female Therapist and Male Patient. Kulish, Gender and Transference: The Screen of the Phallic Mother. Karme, The Analysis of a Male Patient by a Female Analyst: The Problem of the Negative Oedipal Transference. Goldberger, Holmes, On Transference Manifestations in Male Patients with Female Analysts.

O autorze

Joy Schaverien is a Professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology in London, a Training Analyst and Supervisor of the British Association of Psychotherapists, and Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield and a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology.