| Description |
viii, 207 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Relational perspectives book series ; v. 13 |
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Relational perspectives book series ; v. 13
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. On Seduction, Intellectualization, and the Bad Mother: Underlying Assumptions of the Analytic Process -- Ch. 2. On the Analyst's Fear of Surrender: Can Sex Be Far Behind? -- Ch. 3. Show Some Emotion: Completing the Cycle of Affective Communication -- Ch. 4. Why Self-Disclosure Works in Spite of the Analyst's Imperfections -- Ch. 5. Since Feeling Is First: Projective Identification and Countertransference Interventions -- Ch. 6. Enactment: When the Patient's and Analyst's Pasts Converge -- Ch. 7. Therapeutic Necessity or Malpractice? Physical Contact Reconsidered -- Ch. 8. Reflections on the Analyst's Legitimate Power and the Existence of Reality |
| Summary |
What are the actual clinical implications of a relational approach to psychoanalytic therapy? Does recent theorizing about "mutuality" and "intersubjectivity" really change the way analysts work with patients? In her theoretically articulate and clinically sophisticated answer to these questions, Karen Maroda calls on analytic therapists to "show some emotion!" 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 the patient to acquire basic self-trust along with self-knowledge |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Psychotherapy.
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Psychotherapist and patient.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalytic Therapy -- methods.
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Professional-Patient Relations.
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| Author |
Maroda, Karen J.
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| LC no. |
98050500 |
| ISBN |
0881633976 paperback |
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0881632252 cased |
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