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Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference: Perspectives from Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis

Editor : Joy Schaverien

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The book is divided into four sections:

* Gender and the Erotic Transference
* The Erotic Transference and the Symbolic Function
* Women Working With Women
* Historical Perspectives on Women Working with Men

"Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference" extends existing theory, highlighting the symbolic nature of the transference/countertransference dynamic. It will be compelling reading for experienced clinicians, students and trainees in the fields of psychoanalysis, analytical psychology and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as well as counselling, the arts therapies and social work.

Contents:
Men Who Leave Too Soon. Schaverien, Introduction. Schaverien, Men Who Leave Too Soon: Further Reflections on the Erotic Transference and Countertransference. Schaverien, Erotic Transference, Countertransference and Individuation at the End of Life. Schaverien, Supervising the Erotic Transference and Countertransference. The Erotic Transference and the Symbolic Function. Schaverien, Introduction. Springer, Paying Homage to the Power of Love: Exceeding the Bounds of Professional Practice. Covington, Purposive Aspects of the Erotic Transference. Kavaler-Adler, Mourning and Erotic Transference. Ellis, Who Speaks? Who Listens? Different Voices and Different Sexualities. Women Working With Women. Schaverien, Introduction. Williams, Women in Search of Women: Clinical Issues that Underlie a Woman¿s Search for a Female Therapist. Kavaler-Adler, Lesbian Homoerotic Transference in Dialectic with Developmental Mourning: On the Way to Symbolism from the Protosymbolic. Springer, Female Perversion: Scenes and Strategies in Analysis and Culture. Orbach, What Can we Learn from the Therapist¿s Body?Historical Perspectives on Women Working with Men. Schaverien, Introduction. Guttman, Sexual Issues in the Transference and Countertransference between Female Therapist and Male Patient. Kulish, Gender and Transference: The Screen of the Phallic Mother. Karme, The Analysis of a Male Patient by a Female Analyst: The Problem of the Negative Oedipal Transference. Goldberger, Holmes, On Transference Manifestations in Male Patients with Female Analysts.

Author Biography:
Joy Schaverien is a Professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology in London, a Training Analyst and Supervisor of the British Association of Psychotherapists, and Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield and a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology.

Full Contributors:
Coline Covington, Mary Lynne Ellis, Marianne Goldberger, Dorothy Evans Holmes, Herta A Guttman, Laila Karme, Susan Kavaler-Adler, Nancy Kulish, Susie Orbach, Joy Schaverien, Anne Springer, Sherly Williams