Erotic transference and countertransference : clinical practice in psychotherapy

Erotic narratives in psychoanalytic practice: an introduction - David Mann. Part 1 - Love and the erotic: developmental issues and their relevance to clinical practice. 1 Love in the time of psychotherapy - Jackie Gerrard. 2 Bringing up Eros: a Kohutian perspective - Sheila Gordon. 3 Eros: the connecting principle (or the complexities of love and sexuality) - Jean Thomson. Part 2 - Progressive and regressive aspects of the erotic transference and countertransference. 4 Oedipus and the unconscious erotic countertransference - David Mann. 5 Understanding the erotic and eroticised transference and countertransference - Ronald Doctor. 6 'O tell me the truth about love' - Nathan Field. 7 Primal absence and loss in erotic transference - Martin Stanton. 8 Erotic tgransference in clinical practice - Marco Chiesa. Part 3 - Sexual abuse and its impact on psychotherapy. 9 A sense of all conditions - Fiona Gardner. 10 From sexual misconduct to social justice - Andrew Samuels. Cupid's myriad arrows: an afterword - David Mann

'...brings together, for the first time, contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice. Representing a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives, including object relations, Kleinian, Jungian, self psychology and Lacanian thought, the contributors highlight similarities and differences in their approaches to the erotic in transference and countertransference, ranging from love and sexual desire to perverse and psychotic manifestations.'

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