Dealing with the therapist's vulnerability to depression

1 Introduction. 2 Depressive symptomatologies. 3 The transference-countertransference paradigm. 4 Depression caused by others: the patient and the therapist. 5 Group psychodynamics: the patient and the therapist. 6 Cultural and social factors. 7 Summing up

'The working life of every therapist can be negatively affected in varying degrees by a patient's reactive or endogenous depression or by symptoms such as futility, shame, or guilt....this book...describes how depressed patients can put their depression into others through projective identification. Therapists can introject these depressed feelings or psychic parts and, in turn, become depressed. Heath explores the ways in which therapists can strengthen their internal psychological boundaries in order to minimize their vulnerability to depression....'

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