Coasting in the Countertransference: Conflicts of Self Interest between Analyst and Patient

by Irwin Hirsch

Book Overview

Winner of the 2009 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship

Irwin Hirsch, author of Coasting in the Countertransference, asserts that countertransference experience always has the potential to be used productively to benefit patients. However, he also observes that it is not unusual for analysts to 'coast' in their countertransferences, and to not use this experience to help treatment progress toward reaching patients'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881634808
• ISBN13: 9780881634808
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"