ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book describes the scene in North America, and begins with a discussion of the development of the idea of counter-transference the explosion of interest in the topic around 1950. It highlights the effect of Reich in inhibiting discussion of the topic in the fifties and sixties; and the relatively later development in the States of discussion of counter-transference than in other regions. The book examines the situation in Britain, particularly noting the Kleinian and post-Kleinian development of the notion of countertransference. It explores the Latin American scene starts with H. Racker and the w. Barangers, and the inhibiting effect of Lacan in South America as in France on the discussion of countertransference. Psychoanalysis has a plurality of schools, and the idea of countertransference has been developed differently in these various arenas.
