Countertransference and Psychotherapeutic Technique: Teaching Seminars

by Masterson, M.D.,James F.

• ISBN13: 9780876303344
• ISBN10: 0876303343
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1986-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
I. VICISSITUDES OF COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
Introduction	5	(2)
Countertransference: Helplessness	7	(11)
Countertransference: Overdirectiveness	18	(17)
Countertransference Controlled; Then Control Lost	35	(13)
Confrontation Leads to Abandonment Depression	48	(3)
Countertransference: Guilt	51	(12)
Summary of Part I	57	(4)
II. ESTABLISHING A THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE
Introduction	61	(2)
Initial Evaluation	63	(3)
Countertransference: Overdirectiveness	66	(3)
Countertransference Controlled; Patient Responds	69	(14)
Patient's Facing Conflict With Mother Leads to Avoidance	83	(13)
Confrontation of Avoidance Leads to Basic Conflict	96	(10)
Reprise: Confrontation, Conflict With Mother, Resistance	106	(10)
Continued Resistance Based on Feelings of Hopelessness	116	(5)
Confrontations Integrated; Therapeutic Alliance Established	121	(4)
Therapeutic Alliance Consolidated; Patient Faces Conflicts	125	(6)
Therapist Regresses and Becomes Overdirective	131	(25)
Therapeutic Alliance Firms; Patient Asserts Self	156	(13)
Summary of Part II	164	(3)
III. PSYCHOTHERAPY OF LOWER-LEVEL BORDERLINE
Introduction	167	(2)
Initial Evaluation	169	(12)
Countertransference: Therapist's Overactivity	181	(10)
Countertransference Controlled; Patient Faces Depression; Countertransference Resurfaces	191	(11)
Countertransference Controlled; Further Working-through	202	(3)
Further Working-through: Confrontation of Transference Acting-out Leads to Abandonment Depression	205	(7)
Working-through (continued): Management of Hopelessness	212	(4)
First Therapeutic Crisis: Can the Patient Do It?	216	(6)
Working-through: Transference Acting-out Evokes Countertransference	222	(9)
Working-through (continued): Patient's Anger Emerges	231	(3)
Working-through (continued): Improvement, Regression, More Countertransference	234	(10)
Second Therapeutic Crisis: Abandonment Panic at Rage	244	(6)
Psychosis Emerges; Treatment Changed	250	(5)
Transition From Intensive Analytic to Confrontive Psychotherapy and Medication	255	(6)
Reevaluation of Treatment	261	(4)
Management of Depression	265	(4)
Psychosis Subsides; Depression Persists	269	(8)
Summary of Part III	271	(4)
IV. A REPRISE AND A CAUTION
Introduction	275	(2)
Management of Avoidance and Clinging Defenses	277	(10)
Clinical Evaluation of Sociopathic Personality	287	(8)
Conclusion	295	(4)
List of Clinical Issues	299	(4)
Clinical Therapeutic Issues Index	303