Love and Hate in the Analytic Setting
On erotic and aggressive transference and countertransference in the analytic relationship.
Gabbard collects his work on the passions that arise between patient and analyst: erotic and aggressive transference, and the countertransference each provokes. He treats love and hate not as obstacles to be cleared away but as clinical material to be understood.
He maps these feelings across a spectrum, from ordinary workable attachment to the erotized and the intractable. He examines the tie between love and lust, passive and disguised forms of hatred, adolescent transferences, and the way gender shapes what is felt and expressed in the consulting room. Drawing on object relations theory and close case illustration, he stays with what a clinician meets when strong feeling enters from either side.
For the practitioner, the book supplies a vocabulary for naming these states and a frame for holding them without being overwhelmed or acting on them. Published in 1996, it addresses therapists managing intense affect in their own responses as much as in their patients'.
About the author
Glen Owens Gabbard
Glen O. Gabbard is an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, born in 1949. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and a training and supervising analyst at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. His work centres on psychodynamic psychiatry, professional boundary violations, and the psychotherapies. He has authored or edited many books and papers, including texts on psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, physician health, and depictions of mental illness in film.
Details
- 1996
- Jason Aronson
- Jason Aronson
- 300
- 9781568216713