A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement (Relational Perspectives Book Series)

Cooper, Steven H.

ISBN 10: 0415806291 / ISBN 13: 9780415806299

Verlag: Routledge, 2010

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• Titel: A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement (Relational Perspectives Book Series)
• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0415806291
• ISBN-13: 9780415806299
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

The field, as Steven Cooper describes it, is comprised of the inextricably related worlds of internalized object relations and interpersonal interaction. Furthermore, the analytic dyad is neither static nor smooth sailing. Eventually, the rigorous work of psychoanalysis will offer a fraught opportunity to work through the most disturbing elements of a patient’s inner life as expressed and experienced by the analyst - indeed, a disturbance in the field. How best to proceed when such tricky yet altogether common therapeutic situations arise, and what aspects of transference/countertransference should be explored in the service of continued, productive analysis?

These are two of the questions that Steven Cooper explores in this far-ranging collection of essays on potentially thorny areas of the craft. His essays try to locate some of the most ineffable types of situations for the analyst to take up with patients, such as the underlying grandiosity of self-criticism; the problems of too much congruence between what patients fantasize about and analysts wish to provide; and the importance of analyzing hostile and aggressive aspects of erotic transference. He also tries to turn inside-out the complexity of hostile transference and countertransference phenomena to find out more about what our patients are looking for and repudiating. Finally, Cooper raises questions about some of our conventional definitions of what constitutes the psychoanalytic process. Provocatively, he takes up the analyst’s countertransference to the psychoanalytic method itself, including his responsibility and sources of gratification in the work. It is at once a deeply clinical book and one that takes a post-tribal approach to psychoanalytic theory - relational, contemporary Kleinian, and contemporary Freudian analysts alike will find much to think about and debate here.

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Steven H. Cooper, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and faculty and Supervising Analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. Joint editor-in-chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, he is the author of Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 2000).