350 Pages
    by Routledge

    350 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume will be of enormous interest and value to the growing number of people qualified both in the established and the new training societies for analysts and therapists, or studying to enter them. Within it theory and practice are closely interwoven, demonstrating how theories and models emerge, both from the study of earlier pioneering publications and from day to day experience, and are tested time and time again in the process of a group of practitioners accepting them as viable. An impressive and creative blend of the characteristics which this profession demands of its practitioners is in evidence here, combining originality with passion for their subject and the flexibility required to develop their own pattern of thought. 'In the practice of modern analytical psychology it has become of central importance to reorganise, analyse and interpret projections and introjections of many sorts, the patient's transference, the analyst's counter-transference, and the dialectical interaction between the two, which is descriptively termed transference/counter-transference.

    Introduction to the Second Edition , Editorial introduction , Technique , The symbolic attitude in psychotherapy , The personality of the analyst in interpretation and therapy , Flexibility in analytic technique , Some notes on the process of reconstruction , The management of the counter-transference evoked by violence in the delusional transference , On terminating analysis , Transference , Notes on the transference , The transference in analytical psychology , Transference as creative illusion , Transference as a fulcrum of analysis , Transference as a form of active imagination , Transference phenomena in alcoholism , Counter-Transference , The dangers of unrecognized counter-transference , Counter-transference , Counter-transference , Technique and counter-transference , Comment: on not incarnating the archetype , Reply to Plant’s ‘Comment’ , Transference/counter-transference: talion law and gratitude*

    Biography

    Michael Fordham