David Mann
David Mann is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice in Tunbridge Wells. He was previously a consultant psychotherapist in the NHS for 15 years. He is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council and the UK Council for Psychotherapy. He has run his workshop, 'Working with the Erotic Transference and Countertransference', around the UK and Europe. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters and is the editor of three significant books on the erotic transference, love and hate, and trauma.
Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship - Transference and countertransference passions
Challenges the traditional belief that transference and countertransference are merely forms of resistance which jeopardize the therapeutic process. Shows how the erotic feelings and fantasies... (more)
Erotic Transference and Countertransference: Clinical Practice in Psychotherapy
Bringing together contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice, this text represents a spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives,... (more)
Love and Hate: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Love and hate seem to be the dominant emotions that make the world go round and are a central theme in psychotherapy. "Love and Hate" explores the origins of love and hate from infancy and how they... (more)
The Past in the Present: Therapy Enactments and the Return of Trauma
Brings together for the first time contemporary ideas from both the psychoanalytic and humanist therapy traditions, looking at how trauma and enactments affect psychotherapeutic practice. Enactments... (more)
Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship: Transference and Countertransference Passions
Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship challenges the traditional belief that transference and countertransference are merely forms of resistance that jeopardize the therapeutic process. David Mann... (more)