The Power of Countertransference: Innovations in Analytic Technique (Wiley Series in Psychotherapy and Counselling) [Hardcover]

Karen J. Maroda (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471926264 | ISBN-13: 978-0471926269 | Publication Date: August 15, 1991 | Edition: 1

The author advocates a change in basic psychoanalytic technique in order to enhance the psychoanalytic method. Expands the key elements of transference and resistance to acknowledge that these phenomena are expressed not only by patientsbut also by their therapists. Thus, psychoanalytic treatment is viewed as mutual and interpersonal, and the emotional responses of the therapist are viewed as an integral part of the process rather than something to be stifled, overcome or analyzed away.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 196 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (August 15, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471926264
• ISBN-13: 978-0471926269
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,785,408 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Karen J. Maroda, Ph.D., ABPP is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin and in private practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is the past ethics chair and board member of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, and past president of Section III, Women, Gender and Psychoanalysis, of Division 39. She currently is a member of the board of directors for the American Board of Professional Psychology in the psychoanalysis specialty area. The author of two previous books, The Power of Countertransference, and Seduction, Surrender and Transformation, Dr. Maroda has also published numerous journal articles, book chapters and book reviews. She lectures nationally and internationally on a variety of aspects of the therapeutic process, including the place of affect, self-disclosure, countertransference, legitimate authority, and the need for clinical guidelines. On the board of three major journals, she actively encourages her colleagues to write and talk about what they actually do as therapists.