Description: To the end of clarifying the therapeutic potential of countertransference reactions while doing justice to the intricate "internal processing" needed to realize this potential, Tansey and Burke analyze the complex interrelationships among countertransference, projective identification, and empathy, three concepts that bridge the intrapsychic and interpersonal spheres of therapeutic interaction. Drawing on extensive clinical material, they carefully delineate the step-by-step process whereby the patient's impact on the therapist, conceptualized in terms of projective identification, ultimately yields to therapist self-understanding that makes possible empathic understanding of the patient. By making empathy the outcome of a stage-oriented process aimed at understanding the patient's influence on the therapist, Tansey and Burke effectively demystify the empathic process. From the standpoint of their schematic framework, empathy issues from the therapist's successful internal processing of the patient's projective identifications. Thus construed, empathy only informs specific interventions, but culminates in an attunement far deeper than that attainable by words alone."Understanding Countertransference" is an important contribution to an analytically inspired theory of technique. Out of Tansey and Burke's clinically grounded "unitary sequence for processing interactional communications" emerge helpful guidelines for managing difficult countertransference experiences; their balanced discussion of the controversial topic of countertransference disclosure to the patient will be especially welcome.For social work and clinical psychology trainees, psychiatric residents, and psychoanalytic candidates "Understanding Countertransference" will have additional value. Exploring in refreshingly concrete ways how therapists can validate their hypotheses about the sources and meanings of their emotional responses to patients, Tansey and Burke emerge with an interactional model through which empathy becomes a teachable clinical skill. c 1989, hardcover, like new
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Subject Area: Psychology
Publication Name: Analytic Press
Publisher: Routledge
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject: Psychotherapy / General, Applied Psychology, Interpersonal Relations
Publication Year: 1989
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.8 in
Author: Walter F. Burke, Michael J. Tansey
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Item Weight: 12 Oz
Item Width: 6.1 in
Number of Pages: 238 Pages
