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Desire and the female therapist : engendered gazes in psychotherapy and art therapy

By: Material type: TextTextLondon, England/New York, NY Routledge c1995Description: xiii, 233p.; ill. (some col.); bibliog.; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415087015
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RC489.A7 S28 1995
Contents:
1 Introduction. 2 Desire and the female therapist. 3 Desire and the male patient: anorexia. 4 The pictures. 5 The transactional object: art psychotherapy in the treatment of anorexia. 6 The aesthetic countertransference: desire in art and psychoanalysis. 7 Desire, the spaces in-between and the image of a child. 8 The lure and reflections. 9 The engendered gaze. 10 Conclusion
Abstract: '...one of the first full-length explorations of erotic transference and countertransference from the point of view of the female therapist. Particular attention is given to the female therapist/male client relationship and to the effects of desire made visible in art objects in analytical forms of psychotherapy. Drawing on aesthetic and psychoanalytic theory, specifically Lacan and Jung, the book offers a significant new approach to desire in therapy....Written primarily for psychotherapists, art therapists and analysts....'
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1 Introduction. 2 Desire and the female therapist. 3 Desire and the male patient: anorexia. 4 The pictures. 5 The transactional object: art psychotherapy in the treatment of anorexia. 6 The aesthetic countertransference: desire in art and psychoanalysis. 7 Desire, the spaces in-between and the image of a child. 8 The lure and reflections. 9 The engendered gaze. 10 Conclusion

'...one of the first full-length explorations of erotic transference and countertransference from the point of view of the female therapist. Particular attention is given to the female therapist/male client relationship and to the effects of desire made visible in art objects in analytical forms of psychotherapy. Drawing on aesthetic and psychoanalytic theory, specifically Lacan and Jung, the book offers a significant new approach to desire in therapy....Written primarily for psychotherapists, art therapists and analysts....'

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