The Analyst's Analyst Within

ISBN-13: 9780881633511 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 372 str.

Lora Heims Tessman

Opis

This study examines how psychoanalysts' experiences with their own analysts affect their lives, their loves and their evolving professional identities. The author samples different gender combinations and age ranges in showing how the values typifying different eras of psychoanalytic theorizing enter into the meaning and impact of training analyses. startling differences according to the decade during which a training analysis took place. She also found that neither the theoretical orientation of the training analyst nor his or her technical preferences predicted whether, years later, the analysis would be remembered as satisfying or dissatisfying, as growth promoting or thwarting. Rather it was the quality of affective engagement that became reliably present, with the figure of the training analyst, inscribed in all his or her particularity, accounting for the perceived sense of a truly productive analytic experience. Because the author's survey participants elaborated on precisely those ingredients that either fostered or stymied inner change, their testimonies add up to striking documentation of the differences between satisfying analyses and analyses retrospectively viewed as more hurtful than helpful.

Spis treści

Overview.Conversations and Process.Satisfaction and the Analyst.In the Mind's Eye.Gendered Desires: An Introduction.Women with Male Analysts.Men with Male Analysts.Men with Female Analysts.Women with Female Analysts.

O autorze

Lora H. Tessman