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Love and Hate in the Analytic Setting

By Glen O. Gabbard

Book information

Publisher
Inc., Jason Aronson
Year
2000
ISBN
0765702916, 9780765702913
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9899973 bytes)
Series
The Library of Object Relations
Pages
300\282
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2016-06-13 14:55:39
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Description

Passionate feelings of love and hate are stirred in psychotherapy. Paradoxically, these passions may either undermine the therapist catastrophically or serve as the crucible in which profound understanding is forged. Transferences and countertransferences of love and hate occur on a spectrum that includes unobjectionable negative and positive feelings, relatively benign forms of love and hate, and more malignant, intractable versions of love and hate that present formidable challenges to the therapist. Each of these variations is explored in different chapters of this book. Gender configurations, gender fluidity, adolescent transferences, the link between love and lust, and passive forms of hating are among the topics discussed. Most of all, the author, noted psychoanalyst Glen Gabbard, depicts what it is like to be in the eye of the hurricane when passions are aroused. He provides a practical yet theoretically sophisticated guide to the management of love and hate as they are experienced by both patient and therapist.

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