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The ideas presented in this book are the outcome of years of
conducting psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with adults and
children, working with mother infant groups, and studying infant
development. Working with mother infant pairs as an observer,
rather than as a therapist, is for a psychoanalyst what time travel
would be for an archeologist, albeit infinitely more accessible.
One is privileged to observe the early relationship "in statu
nascendi," as it unfolds, whereas reconstructing it in
psychoanalysis is a slow, complex process, burdened by false
starts, doubts and painstaking (sometimes painful) examination of
the counter-transference. Observing normal infants in their natural
environment allows one also to appreciate the rich variety of
infant personalities and their impact on the caregivers.The book
examines the clinical implications of innate developmental
individuality. The authors present an outline of the
interdependence of the developmental sequences: perceptual, motor,
cognitive and emotional. The book examines the clinical and
theoretical issues, as well as examining some recent advances in
neuro-behavioral sciences."
The book examines the clinical implications of innate developmental
individuality. The authors present a model of what they call
"developmentally informed" therapy, based on the assumption that
biologically determined (or co-determined) maladjusted behaviours
and deficiencies of ego functions cannot be resolved by
interpretation of an unconscious c
In psychoanalysis the term "countertransference", coined by Freud,
describes the complex emotional relation between therapist and
patient. The term is nowadays used in a broad sense, referring to
the entire range of emotions experienced by the therapist/analyst
covering many types of therapeutic process. Today's mental-health
practitioners are called upon to deal with a wide variety of
challenges, some of them highly emotionally-charged, such as child
abuse, gender identity or catastrophic loss. This book comprises
three main parts: Part I -- The History of Countertransference;
Part II -- The Clinical Challenge and Part III -- The Biological
Roots of Counter- transference. After essays in Part I introducing
the subject and the history of the concept, as reflected in the
classic literature (Kernberg, Heimann, Searles, Balint and Main),
Part II presents a range of clinical challenges, analysed by
contributor colleagues with extensive experience in these and
similar issues. It also addresses Holocaust survivor issues, and
child survivor experiences of the Nazi euthanasia programme. The
study of counter-transference, like other psychoanalytic issues,
has recently become enriched by the striking advances in the study
of the living brain and of animal behaviour (the published works of
Panksepp, Hoffer). Part III engages with recent findings regarding
the biological roots that have implications for the understanding
of counter-transference. A Summary to the volume presents the
overall conclusions to the findings presented in the three parts.
The book is intended for mental health and other human service
practitioners, such as physicians, educators, jurists and human
resource managers.
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