ABSTRACT

Erotic Transference and Countertransference brings together, for the first time, contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice. Representing a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives, including object relations, Kleinian, Jungian and Lacanian thought, the contributors highlight similarities and differences in their approaches to the erotic in transference and countertransference, ranging from love and sexual desire to perverse and psychotic manifestations. Erotic Transference and Countertransference offers ways of understanding the erotic which should prove both useful and thought-provoking.

part |38 pages

Love and the Erotic

chapter |14 pages

Bringing up Eros

A Kohutian Perspective

chapter |9 pages

Eros

The Connecting Principle (or the Complexities of Love and Sexuality)

part |27 pages

Sexual abuse and its impact on psychotherapy