Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation: Emotional Engagement in the Analytic Process

by Karen J. Maroda

Book Overview

Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation demonstrates how interpersonal psychoanalysis obliges analysts to engage their patients with genuine emotional responsiveness, so that not only the patient but the analyst too is open to ongoing transformation through the analytic experience. In so doing, the analyst moves from the position of an "interpreting observer" to that of an "active participant and facilitator" whose affective communications enable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881633976
• ISBN13: 9780881633979
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.8"