Transference and countertransference today / edited by Robert Oelsner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oelsner, Robert.

Series:

The New Library of Psychoanalysis

New library of psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transference (Psychology).

Countertransference (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P>Why has Heinrich Racker's original work on transference and countertransference proven so valuable?</P><P></P><P>With a passionate concern for the field created by the meeting of analyst and patient, and an abiding interest in the central importance of transference and countertransference in analytic practice, Robert Oelsner has brought together the thought and work of seventeen eminent analysts from Europe, the United States, and Latin America.</P><P></P><P>In new essays commissioned for this volume, the writers have set aside the lines that can often divide psychoanalytic groups and schoo

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents ; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Transference; Countertransference; Transference, countertransference, and technique; Notes; Bibliography; 1. Observations on countertransference as a technical instrument: Preliminary communication; Summary; Observations on counter-transference as a technical instrument; Notes; Bibliography; 2. Transference-countertransference: A testimony; Monday; Tuesday; Wednesday; Thursday; Friday; Note

3 "Well, you'd better ask them": The countertransference position at the crossroadsIntroduction; The countertransference position; Complementary identification; The psychic presence of the analyst and his countertransference position; The analyst's transference on to the patient and his countertransference position; The "missing concept[s]"; Freud and the accounts of Maryse Choisy and Abraham Kardiner in the light of the concept of the countertransference position; Conclusion to mark an opening; Notes; Bibliography; 4. Countertransference: A contemporary approach from the River Plate region

On clinical implementationCountertransference as a tool; Countertransference as an obstacle; How do we explain the countertransference?; The metapsychology of countertransference; Concerning clinical practice; The analyst's theories and their effects on his practice; Concordant and complementary countertransference; Clinical vignettes; Countertransference and the psychoanalytic method: suspended attention and enactment; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 5. Freud's countertransference? Reviewing the case histories with modern ideas of transference and countertransference

Characteristics of countertransferenceThe Wolf Man; The patient's transference; The analyst's emotional state; Some untoward action of the analyst appropriate to the linked emotional states; The Rat Man; The patient's transference; The analyst's emotional state; Some untoward action of the analyst appropriate to the linked emotional states; Response to countertransference; Little Hans; The patient's transference; The observer's emotional state; Some untoward action of the analyst appropriate to the linked emotional states; Response to the countertransference

Further issues in the countertransference debateConclusions; Notes; Bibliography; 6. Misconceptions, enactment, and interpretation; Introduction; Clinical material; The development of a psychotic misrepresentation in the first year of treatment; Borderline organizations and perverse misrepresentations; Clinical material of two sessions in the fifth year of analysis; First session; Discussion; Second session; Discussion; Some further thoughts; Note; Bibliography; 7. Transference on the couch; Transference today; The analyst's transference to working in the transference

On the merits of being a bit pedestrian

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed July 15, 2013).

ISBN:

1-135-04534-8

0-415-83071-0

0-203-49467-9

1-135-04535-6

9780203494677

OCLC:

851695764