The therapist's use of self in family therapy / by Daniel A. Bochner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bochner, Daniel A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family psychotherapy.

Countertransference (Psychology).

Physical Description:

xiii, 484 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, [2000]

Summary:

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Contents:

The Classical and Totalistic Definitions 2

The Absence of "Countertransference" in Family Therapy 4

The Intentional and Unintentional Uses of Countertransference 6

The Transference-Countertransference System and Family Therapy 9

This Study 10

2 The Use of Self in Family Therapy 13

The Early Work of Family Therapy Pioneers 13

The Self-Reflection versus Action Continuum 23

The Psychoanalytic/Object Relations View 27

The Integrationist View 48

The Experiential View 59

The Unimportant View 71

Narrative and Solution-Oriented Therapists 76

Conclusion: The Use of Self as Viewed in Family Therapy 78

3 Perspectives on the Therapist's Use of Self 81

Abstinence and Neutrality 83

Transference 89

Projective Identification 96

Classical Countertransference 109

Acting Out 115

The Origins of the Totalistic Perspective 117

Toward a Transference

Countertransference System 126

4 The Clinical Intersection of Intrapsychic and Dyadic Systems Functioning 147

Insight versus Action 148

Self-Disclosure 158

The Therapist's Character and Its Functioning 167

Empathy and Countertransference 182

Summary: The Clinical Intersection of Intrapsychic and Dyadic Systems and the Relational Systems Perspective 195

5 Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Systems in Groups and Families 199

Empathy and Family Therapy 199

Group Analysis and Countertransference 208

Object Relations Systems and Family Theory 230

Summary: Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Systems 258

6 The Relational Systems Model 261

Valency, Projective Identification, and Extractive Introjection 263

Tensions, Drives, Affects, and Attachments 268

The Three Continua 272

The Opposition of Splitting and Equilibrium 277

Affect Continua and Representations 284

The Paranoid-Schizoid Position in Development 288

Development from Paranoid-Schizoid to Depressive Position Functioning 293

Paranoid-Schizoid and Depressive Position Boundaries and the Relatedness Continuum 297

Anxiety, Repression, the Relatedness Continuum, and Mental Health 306

Differentiating Major Concepts at the Paranoid-Schizoid and Depressive Positions 316

Growth Phenomena: Sexuality, Effectance, Pain, and Pleasure 322

Diagnostics 328

Growth and the Vicissitudes of the Affective Continua: Positive and Negative Feedback 338

Systems Theory and the Intrapsychic System 339

Projective and Introjective Identification and the Theory of Logical Types in Communication 347

Triangles and Hierarchy 354

7 Relational Systems and the Therapist's Use of Self 363

General Clinical Implications of the Relational Systems Model 363

Systems Theory, Projective Identification, and Countertransference 367

The Therapist in the Family System 370

The Intentional Use of Countertransference and the Relational Systems Perspective 376

The Theoretical Model Applied 379

The Psychoanalytic/Object Relations View 380

The Unimportant View 392

The Experiential View 428

The Integrationist View 439

The Flexibility of the Relational Systems Perspective 451.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [455]-469) and index.

ISBN:

0765702487

OCLC:

42786194