What grounds the transference-countertransference interaction?
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The interaction of transference and countertransference in psychoanalysis is grounded in background practices and infantile fantasies. Heidegger uses the idea of background practices to describe everyday coping skills formed in early socialization. J. Gedo has applied the concept in psychoanalysis, describing apraxia as a failure to acquire basic psychological skills which must be taught by the analyst. However, the desire to instruct may be a result of countertransference. Infantile fantasies from early conflicts tend to be reenacted and become the focus of the transference and countertransference.
Publication Name: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-9548
Year: 1992
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Phenomenology in psychiatry and psychoanalysis
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The phenomenological approach in psychoanalysis involves analysts striving to encounter their patients more directly, without interpreting their impressions or filtering them through theoretical constructs. It can aid analyses that have stalled, and has proven especially popular with European therapists. The approach aims to foster comprehension of the patient as a whole person by furthering understanding of the patient's life experiences and perspectives. Its greatest failing is its disregard for Freud's concept of the unconscious mind. Patient diary entries illustrating the approach are provided.
Publication Name: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-9548
Year: 1997
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Creativity and the sense of self: a review essay
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The correspondence of Walter Benjamin and of Heinz Kohut reveal that both men may have been creative geniuses in their respective fields. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a literary and cultural critic who committed suicide during Hitler's reign in his native Germany. Heinz Kohut (1913-1981) was a psychoanalyst whose correspondence is published in an understandable and well-documented book. Kohut might have viewed Benjamin as a "tragic man," but agreed with his emphasis on the mystical.
Publication Name: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-9548
Year: 1996
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