Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference: Perspectives from Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis

by Schaverien; Joy

• ISBN13: 9781583917640
• ISBN10: 1583917640
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-12-13
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Author is in private practice in London, UK. Offers insight into working with complex transference and countertransference phenomena. Includes views from a wide spectrum of theoretical backgrounds and discusses the themes of gender, sexuality, and the erotic transference. Includes coverage of perversion in the analyst. Softcover, hard available. DNLM: Transference (Psychology)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
List of contributors	ix
Introduction	1
JOY SCHAVERIEN
PART I Gender and the erotic transference	13
1 Men who leave too soon: Reflections on the erotic transference and countertransference	15
JOY SCHAVERIEN
2 Individuation at the end of life: A study of erotic transference and countertransference	32
JOY SCHAVERIEN
3 Supervising the erotic transference and countertransference	56
JOY SCHAVERIEN
PART II Erotic transferences and the symbolic function	71
4 Paying homage to the power of love: Exceeding the bounds of professional practice	73
ANNE SPRINGER
5 Purposive aspects of the erotic transference	90
COLINE COVINGTON
6 Mourning and erotic transference	104
SUSAN KAVALER ADLER
7 Who speaks? Who listens? Different voices and different sexualities	123
MARY LYNNE ELLIS
PART III Women working with women	143
8 Women in search of women: Clinical issues that underlie a woman's search for a female therapist	145
SHERLY WILLIAMS
9 Lesbian homoerotic transference in dialectic with developmental mourning: On the way to symbolism from the protosymbolic	157
SUSAN KAVALER-ADLER
10 Female perversion: Scenes and strategies in analysis and culture	184
ANNE SPRINGER
11 What can we learn from the therapist's body?	198
SUSIE ORBACH
PART IV Historical perspectives on women working with men	211
12 Sexual issues in the transference and countertransference between female therapist and male patient	213
HERTA A. GUTTMAN
13 Gender and transference: The screen of the phallic mother	223
NANCY MANN KULISH
14 The analysis of a male patient by a female analyst: The problem of the negative Oedipal transference	240
LAILA KARME
15 On transference manifestations in male patients with female analysts	252
MARIANNE GOLDBERGER AND DOROTHY EVANS HOLMES
Index	273