Looking for Ground: Countertransference and the Problem of Value in Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9780881633245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 432 str.

Peter G. M. Carnochan

Opis

Despite 50 years of literature documenting the experience and meanings of countertransference in analytic practice, the concept remains a source of controversy. How may countertransference best be understood? In what ways does it impede or facilitate the analyst's activity. Does it serve diagnostic understanding or merely reflect the analyst's own intrusive subjectivity? For Peter Carnochan, such questions can be answered only by revisiting historical, epistemological, and moral issues intrinsic to the analytic enterprise. This study is an attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of countertransference on the basis of a contemporary reappraisal of just such foundational assumptions.

Spis treści

Atlas's Perch. Freud and the Advent of Psychoanalysis. Freud: Gratification, Virtue, and the Therapeutic Process. Freud: Reality Testing and the Pleasure Principle. The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Technique after Freud. The Move to Modernity. Knowing and Analysis. Verification and Disclosure. Stillness and Provision: Theories of Virtue in Psychoanalytic Practice. Constructed Virtue: The Architecture of Psychoanalytic Morality.

O autorze

Peter G. M. Carnochan, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice in San Francisco.  He studied philosophy at Harvard University and is currently a candidate at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.  He has written articles on the development of emotion and cognition, and presented psychoanalytic papers at American Psychological Association conferences.  Dr. Carnochan has served as the associate editor of the Psychologist Psychoanalyst and currently serves on the board of the Childhood and Adolescence Section of the Psychoanalysis Division of the APA.