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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791873603321

Autore

Cooper Steven H. <1951-, >

Titolo

A disturbance in the field : essays in transference-countertransference engagement / / Steven H. Cooper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-23185-0

1-135-23186-9

1-283-04543-5

9786613045430

0-203-87178-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Relational perspectives book series ; ; v. 46

Disciplina

616.89/17

Soggetti

Transference (Psychology)

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: The romance and melancholia of loving psychoanalysis; Chapter 2 The grandiosity of self-loathing: Transference-countertransference dimensions; Chapter 3 Privacy, reverie, and the analyst's ethical imagination; Chapter 4 The analyst's experience of being a transference object: An elusive form of countertransference to the psychoanalytic method?; Chapter 5 The analyst's anticipatory fantasies: Aid and obstacle to the patient's self-integration; Chapter 6 Psychoanalytic process: Clinical and political dimensions

Chapter 7 Good enough vulnerability, victimization, and responsibility: Why one-and two-person models need one anotherChapter 8 The new bad object and the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis; Chapter 9 Franz Alexander's corrective emotional experience reconsidered; Chapter 10 Working through and working within: The continuity of enactment in the termination process; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The field, as Steven Cooper describes it, is comprised of the inextricably related worlds of internalized object relations and interpersonal interaction. Furthermore, the analytic dyad is neither



static nor smooth sailing. Eventually, the rigorous work of psychoanalysis will offer a fraught opportunity to work through the most disturbing elements of a patient's inner life as expressed and experienced by the analyst - indeed, a disturbance in the field. How best to proceed when such tricky yet altogether common therapeutic situations arise, and what aspects of transference/countertransferenc