Psychoanalytical Psychology, Physician & Patient, Mental Health Services & Personnel, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy
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Arthur Robbins demonstrates how important countertransference reactions are as sources of information and understanding of patient/therapist interactions. For many therapists, forming supervisory/integration groups provides a means of articulating countertransference issues which allows for self-exploration, investigation and understanding. Robbins presents transcriptions of some of these group supervision sessions, which emphasize the mixture of cognitive and affective organization which the therapist is continually exploring with the patient. He examines the issues that are raised in each session, highlighting the difficulty for the therapist of maintaining objective emotional distance from the patient while remaining receptive, and the complex issue of how much of the therapist's own personality should be permitted to emerge during the therapeutic relationship. A special chapter addresses the complex countertransference issues that specifically apply to creative art therapy.The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
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Demonstrates the importance of countertransference reactions as sources of information and understanding of patient/therapist interactions, through analysis of transcriptions of group supervision sessions. Lacks a subject index. The author is director and training analyst at the Institute for Expressive Analysis, a faculty member at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, and a professor of art therapy at Pratt Institute. Originally published in 1988 by Human Sciences Press Inc. This edition contains a brief new foreword. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
June 9, 1988
Publisher
New York, N.Y. : Human Sciences Press, c1988.
Pages
227
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780898853735