A Disturbance in the Field

Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement

af Steven H. (Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis Cooper

Includes essays that locate some of the most ineffable types of situations for the analyst to take up with patients, such as the underlying grandiosity of self-criticism; the problems of too much congruence between what patients fantasize about and analysts wish to provide; and, the importance of analyzing hostile aspects of erotic transference.