Psychoanalysis Arena

Coasting in the Countertransference

Conflicts of Self Interest between Analyst and Patient

• By Irwin Hirsch

Irwin Hirsch, author of Coasting in the Countertransference, asserts that counter-transference experience always has the potential to be used productively to benefit patients. However, he also observes that it is...

Published February 12th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Power of Countertransference

Innovations in Analytic Technique

• By Karen J. Maroda

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...

Published April 12th 2004 by Routledge.

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Transference

Shibboleth or Albatross?

• By Joseph Schachter

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...

Published December 1st 2001 by Routledge.

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Looking for Ground

Countertransference and the Problem of Value in Psychoanalysis

• By Peter G. M. Carnochan

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,...

Published May 1st 2001 by Routledge.

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The Narration of Desire

Erotic Transferences and Countertransferences

• By Harriet K. Wrye, Judith K. Welles

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...

Published April 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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Transformations

Countertransference During the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Incest, Real and Imagined

• By Elaine V. Siegel

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...

Published May 1st 1996 by Routledge.

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Understanding Countertransference

From Projective Identification to Empathy

• By Michael J. Tansey, Walter F. Burke

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...

Published November 1st 1995 by Routledge.

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Progress in Self Psychology, V. 6

The Realities of Transference

• Edited by Arnold I. Goldberg

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...

Published October 1st 1990 by Routledge.

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Between Analyst and Patient

New Dimensions in Countertransference and Transference

• Edited by Helen C. Meyers

This exemplary introduction to countertransference and transference focuses on three areas in which Freud's classical presentation of these concepts must be expanded: (1) the treatment...

Published October 1st 1986 by Routledge.

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