COUNTERTRANSFERENCE-DERIVED ELABORATION OF RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS AND REPRESENTATIONAL STATES

Authors
SPERO MH
Citation
Mh. Spero, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE-DERIVED ELABORATION OF RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS AND REPRESENTATIONAL STATES, American journal of psychotherapy, 49(1), 1995, pp. 68-94
Citations number
85
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,"Psycology, Clinical",Psychiatry,Psychology
Journal title
American journal of psychotherapy → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029564
Volume
49
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
68 - 94
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9564(1995)49:1<68:CEORCA>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Polysemous qualities of the patient's use of language and metaphor are among the subtle factors involved in the creation of an ambience cond ucive to projective identification, leading to the evolution of counte rtransference crises in the psychotherapist. Carefully interpreted cou ntertransference crises provide pathways to conceptualizing the early substrata of the world of religious representations and intrapsychic o bject relations.