Narcissistic Countertransference

Spotnitz, Hyman

doi:10.1080/00107530.1979.10745597

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“…I was at this stage experiencing Jack as having the narcissistic traits of self‐importance, arrogance, lack of empathy, entitlement and sensitivity to criticism. Spotnitz (1979) and Gabbard (2009) described the propensity that narcissists have in triggering negative responses in therapists. Had I developed some bias towards Jack?…”

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Neuroscience and a Countertransference Impasse in a Neurotypical‐Neurodiverse Analytic Couples Therapy

Israelstam¹

2022

Brit J Psychotherapy

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The author describes how his experiencing of the husband in a neurodiverse-neurotypical couples therapy as narcissistic, led to a countertransference impasse. Using clinical material, he describes how his understanding of neuroscience helped him to view his patient as suffering from high functioning Asperger syndrome, and how this understanding helped in the resolution of the impasse. It is hoped that this clinical situation will emphasize the value of having a greater integration between our psychoanalytic and neurological understandings.

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Section: Countertransference Reflectionsmentioning

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Neuroscience and a Countertransference Impasse in a Neurotypical‐Neurodiverse Analytic Couples Therapy

Israelstam¹

2022

Brit J Psychotherapy

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“…It might prove helpful to add further parameters to provide a more complete classification, such as how much force or apparent hostility is used or, in the case of confrontation by the conductor, whether a confrontation is based on so-called subjective or objective countertransference reactions (Spotnitz, 1979).…”

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Confrontation in the group analytic matrix: Toward a classification

Brown

1988

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“…For example, Deutsch (1926), Margaret Little (1951), Racker (1968) and Spotnitz (1985) all describe forms of countertransference in which the analyst feels the emotions the patient's caregivers originally felt toward the patient. Spotnitz (1983) goes so far as to state the analyst may even experience feelings that were necessary but missing in the patient's development. He calls this an "anaclitic countertransference.…”

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“…Narcissistic transference is a state of mental fusion or symbiosis where there is a blurring of boundaries between self and other. Spotnitz (1979) writes, "The patient may experience the therapist as part of the self or like the self. The therapist may feel that he is in the presence of a kindred spirit or experience a strange sense of harmony" a feeling that Spotnitz calls "narcissistic countertransference" (p.548).…”

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Thought transference in psychoanalysis

Gilhooley¹,

Toich²

2019

Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind

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Thought transference in psychoanalysisMy "Waking up dead" and "Let her die" dreams reflect forms of thought transference, what appear to be communications directly between me, Frank and Lily across a span of sixty miles, without employing any recognizable channel of communication. Since the 1880s this kind of communication has been called telepathic, but fearing censure, psychoanalysts rarely use that word (Brottman, 2011). For the past century psychoanalysts have described many forms of thought transference, but employ phrases like "induced feelings," "objective countertransference," "projective identification," "narcissistic transference," and "therapeutic symbiosis" to describe this phenomenon. Using these expressions, they disguise the fact they're really talking about telepathy. Under the term "countertransference," since 1950 the emergence of the patient's thoughts and feelings in the mind of the analyst has been one of the most commonly discussed clinical phenomena in psychoanalysis.In 1919, in a lecture delivered to the British Society of Psychical Research, Carl Jung acknowledges having "repeatedly observed the telepathic effects of unconscious complexes" in his patients (Main, 1997, p.6). Jung considered the receptivity of the unconscious mind far exceeded consciousness. He believed telepathy and precognition were commonplace and derivative of his broader concept of synchronicity. Chafing at popular rejections of telepathy, in a letter to a Protestant pastor in 1933 Jung writes, "the existence of telepathy in time and space is still denied only by positive ignoramuses" (Luckhurst, 2002, p.230).In 1926, in an essay entitled "Occult Processes occurring during psychoanalysis," Freudian disciple Helene Deutsch (1953) describes the telepathic experience where

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Narcissistic Countertransference

Cited by 6 publications

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Neuroscience and a Countertransference Impasse in a Neurotypical‐Neurodiverse Analytic Couples Therapy

Neuroscience and a Countertransference Impasse in a Neurotypical‐Neurodiverse Analytic Couples Therapy

Confrontation in the group analytic matrix: Toward a classification

Thought transference in psychoanalysis

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