"While transference has been fully described in the literature, countertransference has been viewed as its ugly sibling, and hence there are still not as many reflective accounts or as much guidance for trainees about how to handle difficult emotions, such as shame and envy and …
These sixteen essays examine issues surrounding therapeutic relationships and consider their effects on the beliefs, feelings, and actions of therapists. In them, clinicians describe their own reactions and the changes they've experienced as a result of contact with a particular…
These sixteen essays examine issues surrounding therapeutic relationships and consider their effects on the beliefs, feelings, and actions of therapists. In them, clinicians describe their own reactions and the changes they've experienced as a result of contact with a particular…
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 intr…
"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-disclosure…