Erotic transference and countertransference
Subtitle: clinical practice in psychotherapy
By: edited and introduced by David Mann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780203360736
Subjects: Methods; General; Sexuality; Psychology; Transference (Psychology); Countertransference (Psychology); Erotic aspects; Psychotherapy; PSYCHOLOGY
Description: This collection brings together for the first time contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice. Their contributions are both thought-provoking and of great practical use.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Erotic narratives in psychoanalytic practice: an introduction; Love and the erotic: developmental issues and their relevance to clinical practice; Love in the time of psychotherapy; Bringing up Eros: a Kohutian perspective; Eros: the connecting principle (or the complexities of love and sexuality); Progressive and regressive aspects of the erotic transference and countertransference; Oedipus and the unconscious erotic countertransference; Understanding the erotic and eroticised transference and countertransference.