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Counteridentification, comprehensive countertransference, and therapeutic action: toward resolving the
The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
|August 5, 1999
Abstract:
Two dichotomous trends in thinking about countertransference and therapeutic action can be delineated historically as well as in clinical practice: the intrapsychic and the interactional. The author proposes a new usage of the concepts of counteridentification and comprehensive countertransference to help transform these dichotomizing tendencies into more useful, integrative therapeutic action across the broad spectrum of psychoanalytic treatment for patients from the neurotic to the most severely disturbed.