Transference (Psychology)
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Is feminine masochism a concept worth reviving?

30 Jul 2009 In this paper the author explores situations when a patient seems to regress masochistically from a progressive development. She is concerned with moments when the patient's struggle towards oedipal relating may be easily confused with a situation ... Read more...

Analysis of the creation of 'emptiness', of 'nothingness', in certain types of psychosis.

30 Jul 2009 Some psychotic patients manage to create nothingness and emptiness thanks to the amount of work their ego accomplishes. That is the paradox we find in schizophrenic patients, their ego is simultaneously weak and powerful. When we analyse how this ... Read more...

Immersion in the surface.

30 Jul 2009 In order to treat patients with a narcissistic structure showing a rigid shell of defence together with a lack of inner differentiation - insufficient subject/object constitution - one has to deal with a split kind of transference. Their compelling ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Transference (Psychology)'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A different perspective in listening: understanding transference interpretation and the nature of therapeutic action in dynamic psychotherapy. 29 Sep 2009
• Is feminine masochism a concept worth reviving? 30 Jul 2009
• Analysis of the creation of 'emptiness', of 'nothingness', in certain types of psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Immersion in the surface. 30 Jul 2009
• Being seen or being watched? A psychoanalytic perspective on body dysmorphia. 30 Jul 2009
• Privacy and disclosure in psychoanalysis. 30 Jul 2009
• Longing for the disappointing object and dreading its return. 30 Jul 2009
• Psychoanalytic perspectives on early trauma: interviews with thirty analysts who treated an adult victim of a circumscribed trauma in early childhood. 20 Jul 2009
• Affect education and the development of the interpersonal ego in modern group psychoanalysis. 29 Jun 2009
• The conversation group: using group psychoanalytic techniques to resolve resistances of recently immigrated Chinese students to learning English in a high school setting. 29 Jun 2009
• Co-creating meaningful structures within long-term psychotherapy group culture. 29 Jun 2009
• Commentary on Sander M. Abend's "Freud, transference, and therapeutic action". 29 Jun 2009
• Freud's technique: more from experience than theory. 29 Jun 2009
• Comments on Sander M. Abend's "Freud, transference, and therapeutic action". 29 Jun 2009
• Discussion of Sander M. Abend's "Freud, transference, and therapeutic action". 29 Jun 2009
• Freud, transference, and therapeutic action. 29 Jun 2009
• Payment as perverse defense. 29 Jun 2009
• The internal obstructive object in the analysis of a woman who envies her rapist. 29 Jun 2009
• Striving to be known by significant others: automatic activation of self-verification goals in relationship contexts. 29 Jun 2009
• What is a "good enough" termination? 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Transference (Psychology)'

Definition: The unconscious transfer to others (including psychotherapists) of feelings and attitudes which were originally associated with important figures (parents, siblings, etc.) in one's early life.

Descriptor UI: D014167

Alternative terms: Transference (Psychology); Transferences (Psychology); Transference;

Tree Number: F04.754.720.864;

History Note: 65(63)

Technical Notes: human only; no qualif; DF: TRANSFERENCE