Erotic Transference and Counter Transference

Description

Bringing together contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice, this text represents a spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives, including object relations, and Kleinian, Jungian and Lacanian thought. The contributors highlight similarities and differences in their approaches to the erotic in transference and counter transference, ranging from love and sexual desire to perverse and psychotic manifestations. The book offers ways of understanding the erotic which should prove both useful and thought-provoking.

David Mann is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a member of the London Centre for Psychotherapy. He works in private practice and primary care.