Psychotherapy : An Erotic Relationship: Transference and Countertransference Passions
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David Mann challenges the traditional view that transference and countertransference are forms of resistance which threaten the therapeutic process and argues that they are potentially a powerful source of creative transformation. Making use of clinical material, theoretical insights and new research on infants, Mann traces erotic development back to the parent-child relationship. Drawing parallels between this relationship and the therapist/client dyad, he explains how the parent and therapist alike experience a range of erotic responses which correspond to relevant stimulus from the infant or patient. Individual chapters explore the function of the erotic within the unconscious, pre-Oedipal and Oedipal material, homoeroticism in therapy, sexual intercourse as a metaphor for psychological change, the primal scene and the difficulties of working with perversions. -- Explores the most intimate elements of the psychoanalytic relationship
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- ISBN-13: 9780415148528
- ISBN-10: 0415148529
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: February 1997
- Dimensions: 9.24 x 6.28 x 0.68 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.8 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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