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Transference/ Countertransference

Sex in Psychotherapy

Sexuality, Passion, Love, and Desire in the Therapeutic Encounter

Sex in Psychotherapy
  • By Lawrence E. Hedges.

Published October 2010

Sex in Psychotherapy takes a psychodynamic approach to understanding recent technological and theoretical shifts in the field of psychotherapy. Lawrence Hedges provides an expert overview and analysis of a wide variety of new perspectives on sex, sexuality, gender, and identity; new theories about…
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A Disturbance in the Field

Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement

A Disturbance in the Field
  • By Steven H. Cooper.

Published July 2010

The field, as Steven Cooper describes it, is comprised of the inextricably related worlds of internalized object relations and interpersonal interaction. Furthermore, the analytic dyad is neither static nor smooth sailing. Eventually, the rigorous work of psychoanalysis will offer a fraught…
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Coasting in the Countertransference

Conflicts of Self Interest between Analyst and Patient

Coasting in the Countertransference
  • By Irwin Hirsch.

Published February 2008

Winner of the 2009 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship! Irwin Hirsch, author of Coasting in the Countertransference, asserts that countertransference experience always has the potential to be used productively to benefit patients. However, he also observes that it…
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The Power of Countertransference

Innovations in Analytic Technique

The Power of Countertransference
  • By Karen J. Maroda.

Published April 2004

A signpost of the relational turn in contemporary psychoanalysis, Karen Maroda's The Power of Countertransference, published in 1991, is perhaps the first systematic effort to integrate the need for mutual emotional exchanges, which may include the analyst's own self-disclosures, into an…
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Transference

Shibboleth or Albatross?

Transference
  • By Joseph Schachter.

Published November 2001

The theory of transference and the centrality of transference interpretation have been hallmarks of psychoanalysis since its inception. But the time has come to subject traditional theory and practice to careful, critical scrutiny in the light of contemporary science. So holds Joseph…
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Looking for Ground

Countertransference and the Problem of Value in Psychoanalysis

Looking for Ground
  • By Peter G. M. Carnochan.

Published April 2001

Despite a half-century of literature documenting the experience and meanings of countertransference in analytic practice, the concept remains a source of controversy. For Peter Carnochan, this can be addressed only by revisiting historical, epistemological, and moral issues intrinsic to the…
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The Narration of Desire

Erotic Transferences and Countertransferences

The Narration of Desire
  • By Harriet K. Wrye, and Judith K. Welles.

Published March 1998

In this richly woven study of preoedipal erotic experience, Harriet Kimble Wrye and Judith Welles focus on patients for whom early mothering did not sustain the flowering and subsequent transformation of early erotic desire. Such patients remain under the sway of a primitive eroticism that is often…
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Transformations

Countertransference During the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Incest, Real and Imagined

Transformations
  • By Elaine V. Siegel.

Published April 1996

In recent years, memories and reconstructions of incestuous child abuse have become common features of psychoanalytic treatment. Among some clinicians, such abuse is suspected even when there is little evidence. How does the analyst distinguish between incest real and imagined, and…
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Understanding Countertransference

From Projective Identification to Empathy

Understanding Countertransference
  • By Michael J. Tansey, and Walter F. Burke.

Published October 1995

Seeking to mediate between the "classical" view of countertransference as a neurotic impediment to the treatment process and the more recent "totalist" perspective, which assumes that the therapist's emotional response necessarily reveals something about the patient, Tansey and Burke stake out a…
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Progress in Self Psychology, V. 6

The Realities of Transference

Progress in Self Psychology, V. 6
  • Edited by Arnold I. Goldberg.

Published September 1990

A collection of thoughtul presentations on transference and countertransference highlights The Realities of Transference, Volume 6 in the Progress in Self Psychology series. The selfobject transferences receive special attention. Elsewhere in this volme, selfobject phenomena are…
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