Erotic Transference and Countertransference brings together, for the first time, contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice. Representing a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives, including object relations, Kleinian, Jungian and Lacanian thought, the contributors highlight similarities and differences in their approaches to the erotic in transference and countertransference, ranging from love and sexual desire to perverse and psychotic manifestations. Erotic Transference and...

Someday soon (if it has not happened already in secret), the first cloned human being will be born and mankind will embark on a scientific and moral journey whose destination cannot be foretold. In A Clone of Your Own?, Arlene Judith Klotzko describes the new world of possibilities that can be glimpsed over the horizon. In a lucid and engaging narrative, she explains that the technology to create clones of living beings already exists. inaugurated in 1996 by Dolly, the sheep, the first mammal clone formed from a single adult cell, Dolly was the culmination of a long scientific quest to...

Love and hate seem to be the dominant emotions that make the world go round and are a central theme in psychotherapy. Love and Hate explores the origins of love and hate from infancy and how they develop through the life cycle. With clinical illustration throughout, it brings together contemporary views about clinical practice on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about love and hate in the tranfserence and counter transference and explores how different schools of thought deal with the subject. A broad spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives are represented, including...