Clinical work with adolescents and their parents during family transitions: Transference and countertransference issues

Cheryl Springer

doi:10.1007/bf00757442

Clinical work with adolescents and their parents during family transitions: Transference and countertransference issues

Clinical Social Work Journal ◽

10.1007/bf00757442 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 405-415 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Cheryl Springer

Keyword(s):

Clinical Work ◽

Family Transitions ◽

Transference And Countertransference

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Moving from Within The Maternal

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association ◽

10.1177/0003065116688460 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 65 (1) ◽

pp. 33-60 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Dianne Elise

Keyword(s):

Clinical Benefit ◽

Clinical Work ◽

Narrative Form ◽

Erotic Transference ◽

Starting Point ◽

Transference And Countertransference ◽

Creative Vitality

With Kristeva’s concept of maternal eroticism (2014) as starting point, the “multiverse” of mother/child erotic sensibilities—the dance of the semiotic chora—is explored and a parallel engagement proposed within the analytic dyad. The dance of psychoanalysis is not the creative product of the patient’s mind alone. Clinical work invites, requires, a choreographic engagement by the clinician in interplay with the patient. The clinician’s analytic activity is thus akin to choreography: the structuring of a dance, or of a session, expresses an inner impulse brought into narrative form. The embodied art of dance parallels the clinician’s creative vitality in contributing to the shaping of the movement of a session. Through formulation of an analytic eroticism, the terrain of what traditionally has been viewed as erotic transference and countertransference can be expanded to clinical benefit.

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Coming Together Through Falling Apart

Rorschachiana Journal of the International Society for the Rorschach ◽

10.1027/1192-5604/a000115 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 151-168

Author(s):

Heather Churchill ◽

Jeremy M. Ridenour

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Qualitative Data ◽

Structural Changes ◽

Systematic Approach ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

Psychological Assessments ◽

Transference And Countertransference ◽

Testing Data ◽

Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapy

Abstract. Assessing change during long-term psychotherapy can be a challenging and uncertain task. Psychological assessments can be a valuable tool and can offer a perspective from outside the therapy dyad, independent of the powerful and distorting influences of transference and countertransference. Subtle structural changes that may not yet have manifested behaviorally can also be assessed. However, it can be difficult to find a balance between a rigorous, systematic approach to data, while also allowing for the richness of the patient’s internal world to emerge. In this article, the authors discuss a primarily qualitative approach to the data and demonstrate the ways in which this kind of approach can deepen the understanding of the more subtle or complex changes a particular patient is undergoing while in treatment, as well as provide more detail about the nature of an individual’s internal world. The authors also outline several developmental frameworks that focus on the ways a patient constructs their reality and can guide the interpretation of qualitative data. The authors then analyze testing data from a patient in long-term psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy in order to demonstrate an approach to data analysis and to show an example of how change can unfold over long-term treatments.

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