Expressive Uses of the Countertransference

Bollas, Christopher

doi:10.1080/00107530.1983.10746587

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“…Countertransference inexorably involves an interactive element within the analyst's mind (Heimann 1950;Money-Kyrle 1956;Racker 1953); moreover, patients are unconsciously sensitive to and perceptive of the analyst during unconscious communicative interaction (Bollas 1983;Hoffman 1983;Pick 1985;Searles 1975). The analyst's participation in the patient's transference and the ubiquity of countertransference are rarely in question today.…”

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“…The relational turn, with its use of the wider concept of countertransference, recently regarded as a paradigmatic change and radical, albeit silent revolution (Fabozzi 2012;Pine 2011; see also Aguayo 2011), shifted the focus from the individual's intrapsychic life to the interpsychic drama taking place between patient and analyst in a "spontaneous, preconscious way of functioning" (Schmidt-Hellerau 2012, p. 449, italics in original). Discovering the patient's intrapsychic world through the analyst's looking inward was initiated by the landmark works of Heimann (1950), Racker (1953), Grinberg (1962), and Bion (1962aBion ( , 1962b and subsequently elaborated by many others (e.g., Baranger, Baranger, and Mom 1983;Bollas 1983;Bolognini 2004Bolognini , 2008Botella and Botella 2005;Civitarese 2013;Ferro 2008;Ferro and Basile 2009;Gill 1982;Jacobs 1997;Ogden 1994;Stolorow 1988).…”

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Analytic Mind Use and Interpsychic Communication: Driving Force in Analytic Technique, Pathway to Unconscious Mental Life

Diamond¹

2014

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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Developed from established psychoanalytic knowledge among different psychoanalytic cultures concerning unconscious interpsychic communication, analysts' use of their receptive mental experience--their analytic mind use, including the somatic, unconscious, and less accessible derivatives--represents a significant investigative road to patients' unconscious mental life, particularly with poorly symbolized mental states. The author expands upon this tradition, exploring what happens when patients unconsciously experience and identify with the analyst's psychic functioning. The technical implications of the analyst's "instrument" are described, including the analyst's ego regression, creation of inner space, taking mind as object, bearing uncertainty and intense affect, and self-analysis. Brief case vignettes illustrate the structure and obstacles to this work.

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Analytic Mind Use and Interpsychic Communication: Driving Force in Analytic Technique, Pathway to Unconscious Mental Life

Diamond¹

2014

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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“…But today countertransference has come back centrally into our theory of technique-another phenomenon that has moved from the banished to center stage. Via concepts like induced states or projective identification (in its two-person form), and like unconscious communication, the finding of the patient by looking into ourselves has become a recognized mode of discovery (Bollas 1983;Heimann 1950;Racker 1953). This increases the need for the analyst's self-observation, whether or not this entails a return to analysis, because of the danger of attribution to the patient of what in fact reflects only ourselves.…”

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Beyond Pluralism: Psychoanalysis and The Workings of Mind

Pine

2011

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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Subjects that Freud excluded or incompletely explored have been sites of theoretical expansion in over a century of observation: the role of the other, the self, the preoedipal period, action, the countertransference, limits to neutrality/anonymity/abstinence, the loci of the analytic drama, effects beyond interpretation, agency, and basic needs (versus wishes). These developments have led to conflicting theories and sect-like groupings within the field. Group psychological processes underlying this are discussed; and a broad and inclusive view of psychoanalysis is proposed under the heading of the study of the workings of mind. Additionally, substantial integrative proposals are offered with respect to the central tasks of individual development, theories of mind, the relational turn, and aspects of technique.

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“…Even as adult therapists have embraced more relational ways of thinking and have experimented with expressive uses of their experience (Bollas, 1983;Ehrenberg, 1992;Renik, 1999), many child/adolescent therapists of a psychodynamic orientation have remained mired in an old-fashioned model of Freudian orthodoxy. Neutrality, abstinence, and anonymity remain ideals.…”

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Therapist self‐disclosure with children, adolescents, and their parents

Gaines¹

2003

J Clin Psychol

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Many therapists who work with children and adolescents make extensive use of self-disclosure. However, these interventions have received little attention in the literature, and the basis for using them has not been well established. A developmental/relational perspective on the therapeutic process provides a cogent foundation using therapist self-disclosure with children, adolescents, and their parents. Therapist self-disclosure facilitates the negotiation of many important therapeutic tasks. Clinicians working with children and adolescents almost always work concurrently with parents, yet the nature of this work has not been clearly conceptualized. I advance a collaborative model for parent work, highlighting the essential role of therapist self-disclosure. Extensive clinical examples of therapist self-disclosure with children, adolescents, and their parents are provided.

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Expressive Uses of the Countertransference

Cited by 85 publications

References 6 publications

Analytic Mind Use and Interpsychic Communication: Driving Force in Analytic Technique, Pathway to Unconscious Mental Life

Analytic Mind Use and Interpsychic Communication: Driving Force in Analytic Technique, Pathway to Unconscious Mental Life

Beyond Pluralism: Psychoanalysis and The Workings of Mind

Therapist self‐disclosure with children, adolescents, and their parents

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