ABSTRACT
The question of the transference-countertransference in psychoanalytic treatments of patients suffering from somatic illnesses is both a crucial and difficult one. Thirty years ago, it was customary to read in the literature of the Paris School of Psychosomatics (École psychosomatique de Paris) that these patients did not form a “real transference.” This was an affirmation that had taken on the status of a dogma and has never convinced me.
