The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference, and the Making of Meaning (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology)

169 Pages·2009·2.3 MB·English

by  Ms. Jan Wiener

Number Fourteen
Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology
David H. Rosen, General Editor
The Carolyn and Ernest Fay edited book series, based initially on the
annual Fay Lecture Series in Analytical Psychology, was established to
further the ideas of C. G. Jung among students, faculty, therapists, and
other citizens and to enhance scholarly activities related to analytical
psychology. The Book Series and Lecture Series address topics of im-
portance to the individual and to society. Both series were generously
endowed by Carolyn Grant Fay, the founding president of the C. G.
Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas. The series are in part a
memorial to her late husband, Ernest Bel Fay. Carolyn Fay has plant-
ed a Jungian tree carrying both her name and that of her late hus-
band, which will bear fruitful ideas and stimulate creative works from
this time forward. Texas A&M University and all those who come in
contact with the growing Fay Jungian tree are extremely grateful to
Carolyn Grant Fay for what she has done. The holder of the McMillan
Professorship in Analytical Psychology at Texas A&M functions as the
general editor of the Fay Book Series.

The Therapeutic Relationship

The Therapeutic Relationship
Transference, Countertransference,
and the Making of Meaning
jan wiener
Foreword by David H. Rosen
Texas A&M University Press • College Station
Copyright © 2009 by Jan Wiener
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wiener, Jan.
The therapeutic relationship : transference, countertransference, and the
making of meaning / Jan Wiener ; foreword by David H. Rosen. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (Carolyn and Ernest Fay series in analytical psychology ; no. 14)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-60344-147-6 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-60344-147-6 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Transference (Psychology). 2. Countertransference (Psychology).
3. Psychotherapist and patient. 4. Jungian psychology. I. Title. II. Series:
Carolyn and Ernest Fay series in analytical psychology ; no. 14.
RC489.T73.W45 2009
616.89'17—dc22
2009010424
Contents
Series Editor’s Foreword, by David H. Rosen ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Chapter 1. Jung’s Ambivalence about Transference:
The Legacy for Analytical Psychologists 9
Chapter 2. Working “in” and Working “with” the
Transference: Embracing Diverse Approaches 33
Chapter 3. Countertransference and Imagination 56
Chapter 4. The Transference Matrix 78
Chapter 5. Transference for Life:
Keeping the Patient in Mind 101
Afterword 119
Notes 121
Bibliography 131
Index 143

Series Editor’s Foreword
Between doctor and patient, there are imponderable
factors which bring about a mutual transformation.
—C. G. Jung
Jan Wiener has written a scholarly, creative, and integrative volume
that acknowledges the imponderable but focuses on the perceptible
factors in the therapeutic relationship. She explores the significance
of the processes of transference and countertransference for the ther-
apeutic relationship. She also gives careful consideration to multiple
aspects involved in transference and countertransference, as well as the
way in which they contribute to the making of meaning in the healing
relationship of therapy and analysis. Her book involves unusual depth
(symbols from archetypal dreams and myths) and breadth (relational
moments of purpose and significance) in examining transference and
countertransference. A member of the Society of Analytical Psychol-
ogy (SAP) in London, Jan Wiener sheds light on transference and
countertransference in historical and developmental ways. In addi-
tion, she investigates areas in which what we know about transference
and countertransference in the field of analytical psychology dovetails
well with psychoanalysis and other areas in which it does not. For-
tunately, her muse also takes her to both old and new frontiers from
Jung’s alchemical approach to neurobiology and therefore makes this
text beneficial to a wide range of analytic and therapeutic perspec-
tives. In other words, a member of the SAP, other Jungian analytic