Psychotherapy, an Erotic Relationship

Author: David Mann
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415148528
Category : Countertransference (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship offers practitioners a deeper understanding of the interaction between transference and countertrans- ference and shows how these problematic aspects of therapy can enhance the therapeutic process.

Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship

Author: David Mann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134752393
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 221

Book Description
Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship challenges the traditional belief that transference and countertransference are merely forms of resistance which jeopardize the therapeutic process. David Mann shows how the erotic feelings and fantasies experienced by clients and therapists can be used to bring about a positive transformation. Combining extensive clinical material with theoretical insights and new research on infants, the author traces erotic development back to the parent-child relationship, drawing parallels between this relationship and the therapist/client dyad. Individual chapters explore the function of the erotic within the unconscious, pre-Oedipal and Oedipal material, homoeroticism in therapy, sexual intercourse as a metaphor for psychological change, the primal scene and the difficulties of working with perversions.

Psychotherapy, an Erotic Relationship

Author: David Mann
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415148510
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 221

Deepening Intimacy in Psychotherapy

Author: Florence Rosiello
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN: 1461628113
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
In this provocative volume, Dr. Florence W. Rosiello addresses erotic dynamics in the treatment relationship within the context of a two-person therapy, emphasizing the necessity of mutuality and emotional reciprocity between patient and therapist. With rich clinical illustrations, she demonstrates how the intimacy created by working within the sexual dimension of the therapeutic relationship may present opportunities for insight and growth that could easily be missed if one seeks to avoid these highly charged issues. Focusing on those patients who are predisposed to relating to others in a sexualized manner, Dr. Rosiello has discovered that mutual exploration of both the therapist's and the patient's subjective experience offers a valuable and effective means of enhancing the treatment.

Erotic Transference and Countertransference

Author: David Mann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134668325
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description
Erotic Transference and Countertransference brings together, for the first time, contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice. Representing a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives, including object relations, Kleinian, Jungian and Lacanian thought, the contributors highlight similarities and differences in their approaches to the erotic in transference and countertransference, ranging from love and sexual desire to perverse and psychotic manifestations. Erotic Transferenceand Countertransference offers ways of understanding the erotic which should prove both useful and thought-provoking.

Sexual Boundary Violations

Author: Andrea Celenza
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0765708531
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
This book addresses training, supervisory, and therapeutic issues related to the consequences from sexual boundary violations among mental health professionals and clergy. These problems are discussed on theoretical and practical levels aimed at understanding, recovery, rehabi...

Sexual Intimacy Between Therapists and Patients

Author: Kenneth Pope
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Sexual attraction to a patient is an all but universal experience in therapy . . . and one that is an all but universally avoided topic of discussion among therapists. _Sexual Intimacy Between Therapists and Patients_ faces this complex and painful issue squarely. The authors--themselves experienced clinicians and researchers--draw together clinical studies, first-hand accounts, national surveys, legislation and case law, ethical standards, popular literature, and their own carefully gathered evidence, in order to provide all of the information currently available on patient-therapist intimacy. In this book, Pope and Bouhoutsos outline the varieties of sexual abuse and describe the "at-risk" patient as well as the "at-risk" therapist. They offer guidance on how to treat a patient who has been sexually abused by a former therapist. And they cover the broader social dimensions of the issue, including recommending changes in the education of health professionals and the role played by the legal system.

Working with Sexual Attraction in Psychotherapy Practice and Supervision

Author: Biljana Rijn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000097226
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
Working with Sexual Attraction in Psychotherapy Practice and Supervision addresses some of the challenges associated with sexual attraction in psychotherapy practice and supervision, as well as within services, and helps therapists, supervisors, and managers to navigate them with openness and self-reflection. The book focuses on practical and applied issues, using a relational humanistic-integrative theoretical approach as a backdrop for understanding. Split into three parts, it deals with issues related to clinical practice, supervision and ethical issues. Chapters support in-depth exploration in all three arenas of practice and are completed by editors providing a reflective summary. Enriched with case examples and research written by senior relational practitioners, the book will be beneficial to therapists, supervisors, and service managers in the field of psychotherapy.

The Intimate Hour

Author: Susan Baur
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
Therapist. In fact, as she shows, feelings of love and attraction do not disappear simply because they are forbidden. Describing the famous and infamous liaisons of such figures as Carl Jung, Anton Mesmer, Otto Rank, and others, Baur offers irrefutable evidence that intimacy has played a part in therapy since the beginning and continues to barge in despite regulations to suppress it. With a plea for common sense and open-minded discussion, she makes a powerful argument.

The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy

Author: Joy Schaverien
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000069354
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
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 is considered with exceptional honesty as the analysis intensifies following the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness. A series of dreams rich in symbolic imagery traces the psychological situation as death approaches. A precursor to Schaverien’s acclaimed book Boarding School Syndrome, the single case study demonstrates the enduring impact of early boarding. This second edition also includes an updated literature review, and new material regarding training and supervision, making it a valuable resource for training institutions. The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, counsellors, arts therapists and all professionals working with the dying. The poignant story will also engage the general reader, curious about the process of psychotherapy.