Erotic Transference and Countertransference (Clinical Practice in Psychotherapy)

by David Mann

Erotic Transference and Countertransference brings together, for the first time, contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice. Representing a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives, including object relations, Kleinian, Jungian and Lacanian thought, the contributors highlight similarities and differences in their approaches to the erotic in transference and countertransference, ranging from love and sexual desire to perverse and psychotic manifestations. Erotic Transference and Countertransference offers ways of understanding the erotic which should prove to be both useful and Marco Chiesa, Ronald Doctor, Nathan Field, Fiona Gardner, Jackie Gerrard, Sheila Gordon, Martin Stanton, Andrew Samuels, and Jean Thomson.

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology

Paperback

First published February 25, 1999

About the author

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David Mann is a British psychotherapist.

Reviews

[Sheri · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a collection of essays on transference & countertransference. Each author has his/her own viewpoint on this topic. Each reader will agree more with some essays than with others. The material is written for professionals, so it takes some time to read if this is not your specialty. As a client, I found the material interesting and informative.

[Raluca Irimie · Rating 3 out of 5]

it is pure psychoanalysis. It would have been far more interesting to read about the erotic transference as viewed in other paradigms.