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Coasting in the Countertransference: Conflicts of Self Interest Between Analyst and Patient

Coasting in the Countertransference: Conflicts of Self Interest Between Analyst and Patient

Hirsch, Irwin

Paperback

Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book

General PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 0881634808
ISBN13: 9780881634808
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 12 2008
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.01 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

Winner of the 2009 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship!

Irwin Hirsch, author of Coasting in the Countertransference, asserts that countertransference experience always has the potential to be used productively to benefit patients. However, he also observes that it is not unusual for analysts to 'coast' in their countertransferences, and to not use this experience to help treatment progress toward reaching patients' and analysts' stated analytic goals. He believes that it is quite common that analysts who have some conscious awareness of a problematic aspect of countertransference participation, or of a mutual enactment, nevertheless do nothing to change that participation and to use their awareness to move the therapy forward. Instead, analysts may prefer to maintain what has developed into perhaps a mutually comfortable equilibrium in the treatment, possibly rationalizing that the patient is not yet ready to deal with any potential disruption that a more active use of countertransference might precipitate.

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