ABSTRACT
The question of how psychoanalysts are affected by their patients is of perennial interest. Edward Glover posed the question in an informal survey in 1940, but little came of his efforts. Now, more than half a century later, Judy Kantrowitz rigorously explores this issue on the basis of a unique research project that obtained data from 399 fully trained analysts. These survey responses included 194 reported clinical examples and 26 extended case commentaries on analyst change.
Kantrowitz begins The Patient's Impact on the Analyst by documenting how the process of analysis fosters an interactional process out of which patient and analyst alike experience therapeutic effects. Then, drawing on the clinical examples provided by her survey respondents, she offers a detailed exploration of the ways in which clinically triggered self-reflection represents a continuation of the analyst's own personal understanding and growth. Finally, she incorporates these research findings into theoretical reflections on how analysts obtain and integrate self-knowledge in the course of their ongoing clinical work.
This book is a pioneering effort to understand the therapeutic process from the perspective of its impact on the analyst. It provides an enlarged framework of comprehension for recent discussions of self-analysis, countertransference, interaction, and mutuality in the analytic process. Combining a wealth of experiential insight with thoughtful commentary and synthesis, it will sharpen analysts' awareness of how they work and how they are affected by their work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|20 pages
Prologue
part II|84 pages
Ways of Knowing
chapter Chapter 2|27 pages
Forms of Self-Exploration Different Analysts, Different Modes of Exploration
chapter Chapter 4|28 pages
Pathways to Self-Knowledge Private Reflections, Shared Communications, and Work with Patients
part III|126 pages
Changes in the Analyst
chapter Chapter 10|13 pages
Therapeutic Action or Psychoanalysis Exploration or Its Impact on the Analyst
chapter Chapter 11|10 pages
The Darker Side The Potential Negative Impact or Patients on Tneir Analysts
part IV|13 pages
Epilogue