The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy: Erotic Transference and Boarding School Syndrome

by Joy Schaverien

Book Overview

The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy is a powerful account of love and death within a psychotherapeutic relationship. The narrative traces one man's journey in psychotherapy and that of the analyst who accompanies him.

The full-length description of an analysis demonstrates the developmental path of an erotic transference from its origins in infancy, through fantasies of sex and violence to mature erotic intimacy. The countertransference...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367338696
• ISBN13: 9780367338695
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"