Erotic Transference and Countertransference

Erotic Transference and Countertransferencebrings together, for the first time, contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice. Representing a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives, including object relations, Kleinian, Jungian and Lacanian thought, the contributors highlight similarities and differences in their approaches to the erotic in transference and countertransference, ranging from love and sexual desire to perverse and psychotic manifestations.EroticTransference and Countertransferenceoffers ways of understanding the erotic which should prove to be both useful and thought-provoking. Contributors: Marco Chiesa, Ronald Doctor, Nathan Field, Fiona Gardner, Jackie Gerrard, Sheila Gordon, Martin Stanton, Andrew Samuels, and Jean Thomson.