ABSTRACT
In the Kleinian approach, counter-transference has been a central factor in technique and in the understanding of how patients locate themselves in people's mind and how they try to locate people into their mind. Bion examines the idea of container and contained to better understand the process and how the interpersonal aspects of projective identification come alive and affect the counter-transference. Joseph has also noted how the patient draws the analyst into a variety of emotional experiences and how the counter-transference can illuminate the core elements operating in the transference. Grinberg and Segal have studied the clinical manifestations of intense and often violent projective identification and the resulting counter-transference acting out and insights that are both possible. Careful examination of the counter-transference helped to reduce enactment and helped clarify the interpretive focus. This chapter has presented three clinical reports in which counter-transference was an important factor in the treatment, and in the total transference and complete counter-transference.
