Authors: Howard A. Wishnie
ISBN-13: 9780765703699, ISBN-10: 0765703696
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Aronson, Jason Inc.
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Countertransference responses within the therapist pose a formidable challenge for the clinician, who must carefully examine reactions that may be distressing. These potentially disruptive responses, however, are a valuable source of understanding that can deepen the therapeutic process. This book presents numerous manifestations of countertransference interactions and how they influence treatment, and gives guidelines for effective clinical interventions.
1 | Living in the countertransference | 1 |
2 | Styles of communication | 35 |
3 | Force and coercion | 51 |
4 | Maintaining empathy | 63 |
5 | Enactment and intervention | 89 |
6 | Subtler forms of enactment | 117 |
7 | Twinship transference | 137 |
8 | Unsolicited personal disclosures : useful strategy or therapeutic mistake? | 151 |
9 | Erotic countertransference : a response to frustration, despair, loneliness, loss, anger, denial? : when is eros really eros? | 163 |
10 | Countertransference and psychopharmacology | 191 |
11 | Summary and guidelines | 233 |