Key Papers on Countertransference: IJP Education Section

163 Pages·2002·6.431 MB·English

by  Robert Michels

KEY PAPERS ON

COUNTERTRANSFERENCE

Edited by Robert Michels,

Liliane Abensour, Claudio Laks Eizirik,

Richard Rusbridger

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS K EY PAPERS SERIES
Series Editors: Paul Williams & Glen O. Gabbard
KARNAC
KEY PAPERS ON

COUNTERTRANSFERENCE

l)P EDUCATION SECTION

KEY PAPERS ON

COUNTERTRANSFERENCE

IJP EDUCATION SECTION
edited by
Robert Michels
Liliane Abensour
Claudio Laks Eizirik
Richard Rusbridger
International Journal of Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series

Series Editors: Paul Williams and Glen O. Gabbard

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CONTENTS

SERIES PREFACE vii

Introduction 1

1: Countertransference past and present
a review of the concept
by Theodore J. Jacobs 7

2: Countertransference
by R. D. Hinskelzoood 41

3: Hie countertransference: a Latin American view
by Beairiz de Ledn de Bernardi 81

4:
Hie countertransference scene in France
by Frangois Duparc 117

SERIES PREFACE

The International Journal of
Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series
This series brings together the most important psychoanalytic
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aim of all the monographs is to provide the reader with a
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principal concerns of contemporary psychoanalysts and those with
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International Journal of Psychoanalysis
London, 2002
Introduction
RICHARD
RUSBR1DGER
It often happens in psychoanalysis that phenomena which are first
described as abnormal are later seen to occur more generally and
normally* This is true of psychoanalysis as a theory of mind and of
development, as seen in the case of the Oedipus complex, which
Freud first described as pathological and later as universal and
normal. It is also true of psychoanalysis as a psychotherapy, as in
the case of the transference. This was initially seen by Freud as an
impediment to therapeutic progress; later as one of the main means
of making therapeutic progress; and finally as a universal theme of
all relatiorahips. Freud's notion of the transference also broadened
in that he changed from seeing it as manifested in particular
transferences as they came up in sessions—as in his treatment of
Dora (Freud, 1905 [19011) or of the Rat Man (Freud, 1909}—to seeing
the transference more widely as arepetition in the therapy of all the
patient's characteristic infantile conflicts.
Psychoanalysis is both a study of psychic pathology and,
derived from that, an account of normal psychology- The move
from seeing a phenomenon as pathology to describing it in
normality is nowhere as marked as with the notion of counter­
transference. Freud used it—first in a letter to Jung in 1909 (Freud &