Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation : Emotional Engagement in the Analytic Process (Hardcover)

Introduction 1. On Seduction, Intellectualization, and the Bad Mother: Underlying Assumptions of the Analytic Process 2. On the Analyst's Fear of Surrender: Can Sex Be Far Behind? 3. Show Some Emotion: Completing the Cycle of Affective Communication 4. Why Self-Disclosure Works in Spite of the Analyst's Imperfections. 5. Since Feeling is First: Projective Identification and Countertransference Interventions. 6. Enactment: When the Patient's and Analyst's Pasts Converge 7. Therapeutic Necessity or Malpractice: Physical Contact Reconsidered 8. Reflections on the Analyst's Legitimate Power and the Existence of Reality Conclusion