Transference and Countertransference: A Unifying Focus of Psychoanalysis

Transference and Countertransference: A Unifying Focus of Psychoanalysis
ISBN-10
0429908989
ISBN-13
9780429908989
Category
Psychology
Pages
250
Language
English
Published
2018-05-08
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Jean Arundale, Debbie Bandler Bellman

Description

Since Freud's initial papers on transference and countertransference, these vast and inexhaustible subjects have occupied psychoanalysts. Transference and countertransference, the essence of the patient/analyst relationship, are concepts so central to pschoanalysis that, to our minds, they transcend theoretical orientation and, thus, can be seen as a unifying focus of psychoanalysis. However differently theoretical traditions conceptualize the transference, or disagree as to when and how to interpret it in our everyday analytic work, we all embrace the phenomenon as vital to psychic change.

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