Affect Intolerance in Patient and Analyst

To help patients with their affect intolerance, therapists need to tolerate, contain and manage their own feelings. This text shows how to work with more difficult patients in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. By accessing a full range of overwhelming and unbearable feelings, and by persisting in the therapeutic process, therapists can creatively help their patients tolerate feelings that they have for so long avoided or disrupted.