Psychotherapy

An Erotic Relationship: Transference and Countertransference Passions

By: David Mann

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Paperback | 13 February 1997 | Edition Number 1

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"Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship" explores the most intimate elements of the psychoanalytical relationship--the erotic feelings and fantasies that patients and therapists often experience towards one another. David Mann challenges the traditional view that transference and countertransference are forms of resistance which threaten the therapeutic process and argues that they are potentially a powerful source of creative transformation.
Making use of clinical material, theoretical insights and new research on infants, Mann traces erotic development back to the parent-child relationship. Drawing parallels between this relationship and the therapist/client dyad, he explains how the parent and therapist alike experience a range of erotic responses which correspond to relevant stimulus from the infant or patient. 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.

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"This book is an excellent contribution to the understanding of erotic transference and coutertransference in the psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic process....an outstanding review of the psychoanalytic literature, the poetry, the mythology, and the philosophy of love....I found Mann's book very enjoyable reading and his concepts useful and refreshing to my clinical work."-"Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research

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