Dealing with the Therapist's Vulnerability to Depression

Dealing with the Therapist's Vulnerability to Depression
ISBN-10
0876686129
ISBN-13
9780876686126
Category
Psychology
Pages
200
Language
English
Published
1991
Publisher
Jason Aronson
Author
Sheldon Heath

Description

The working life of every therapist can be negatively affected in varying degrees by a patient's reactive or endogenous depression or by symptoms such as futility, shame or guilt. In this book, Sheldon Heath describes how depressed patients can put their depression into others through projective identification. Therapists can introject these depressed feelings or psychic parts and, in turn, become depressed.

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