Countertransference and the Psychoanalytic Process in Children and Adolescents

Marcus, Irwin M.

doi:10.1080/00797308.1980.11823114

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“…potential, the more age-dependent differences become blurred, and the specificity of a particular analytic couple acquires more significance. On the other hand, the more we pay attention to age groups and behavior, correlating them with developmental stages and fantasies of the patient, the more marked will be the differences among our approaches (Bernstein 1975;Marcus 1980). I am deeply convinced that, although the expressive languages employed are specific, transformations resulting in part from analytic interactions are common to all age groups.…”

Section: The Specificity Of the Psychoanalytic Couplementioning

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Unity of Analysis: Similarities and Differences in the Analysis of Children and Grown-Ups

Ferro¹,

Basile²

2006

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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When comparing child analysis with that of grown-ups, we are confronted with a substantial unity of psychoanalytic method, beyond the apparent differences. The more we consider the analysis as a here-and-now interaction between analyst and patient with transformative potential, the more age-dependent differences become blurred, and the specificity of a particular analytic couple acquires more significance. At the same time, what seems to be all the same--the actual patient before us--is quite different, with several components (the child, adolescent, and adult parts), implying a need to recognize the part we should address at any given point.

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Section: The Specificity Of the Psychoanalytic Couplementioning

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Unity of Analysis: Similarities and Differences in the Analysis of Children and Grown-Ups

Ferro¹,

Basile²

2006

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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“…To paraphrase Marcus's (1980) definition, countertransference is a therapist's reaction that has its roots in the preconscious or unconscious of the therapist, is specific to the patient's transference or other material, and defensively interrupts or disrupts the treatment. Dr. X's prescription of Prozac seemed to have its roots in her preconscious conflicts, since she became aware of them through a shift of attention.…”

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