Transference/Counter‐Transference: Talion Law and Gratitude

Lambert, Kenneth

doi:10.1111/j.1465-5922.1972.00031.x

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“…I thank Sonu Shamdasani for pointing out this passage to me in another context). Jung's way of intervening can also be compared to Racker's conception of concordant countertransference as noted by Lambert (1972).…”

Section: Amplifying Subjectsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Enactments and amplification

Cambray

2001

J Analytical Psychology

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Advances in the understanding and articulation of enactments allow a reassessment of analytical psychology's method of amplification. Subjective and objective aspects of the amplificatory process, evolving notions of its role in analysis together with the use of countertransference phenomena provide the frame for reexamination of this method. Using a single analytic day, this paper explores the inevitable play of enactments with a focus on countertransferential components contained in the act of amplification. An internal examination of such an act is used to attempt to identify and differentiate the operative personal, interpersonal and collective aspects. The impact and traces of this act are followed through the workings of the day and demonstrate that the impulse to amplify is a suitable object for analytic scrutiny. This leads to a more general question of the mythic nature of enactments.

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Section: Amplifying Subjectsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Enactments and amplification

Cambray

2001

J Analytical Psychology

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“…Here are two examples: In discussing various kinds of acting-out, Reich (1951) refers to one supervisee who`became sleepy when certain material of the patient was understood ... as a representation of the primal scene'. Twenty years later Lambert (1972) reports a similar drowsy condition in himself: `I began to fall into a This may range from a suppressed yawn to a marked loss of concentration with lapses of consciousness. These may include brief, very vivid dream fragments all of which feel very different from normal sleepiness.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Listening With the Body: An Exploration in the Countertransference

Field

1989

Brit J Psychotherapy

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ABSTRACT. This paper describes a specific but little‐discussed manifestation of the countertransference: namely the spontaneous arousal of physical feelings in the therapist. It considers three questions arising from this phenomenon: (1) Are they meaningless bodily sensations or evidence of unconscious communication from the patient? (2) If the latter, do they have any therapeutic relevance? (3) What sort of psychological mechanism might enable such messages to be transmitted?

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“…I believe that, in this session, my sleepiness and my sudden physical torpor can be considered not only as a countertransferential response ‘generated by withdrawal to the way in which he kept withdrawn from relationship with me and his internal parent objects’ (Lambert , p. 40), but also as an indication of a new possibility of communication between me and the patient (Devescovi , p. 60). This is the ‘positive effect’ that ‘sleep might have’ (Field , p. 513).…”

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Embodying analysis: the body and the therapeutic process

Martini¹

2016

J Analytical Psychology

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This paper considers the transfer of somatic effects from patient to analyst, which gives rise to embodied countertransference, functioning as an organ of primitive communication. By means of processes of projective identification, the analyst experiences somatic disturbances within himself or herself that are connected to the split-off complexes of the analysand. The analyst's own attempt at mind-body integration ushers the patient towards a progressive understanding and acceptance of his or her inner suffering. Such experiences of psychic contagion between patient and analyst are related to Jung's 'psychology of the transference' and the idea of the 'subtle body' as an unconscious shared area. The re-attribution of meaning to pre-verbal psychic experiences within the 'embodied reverie' of the analyst enables the analytic dyad to reach the archetypal energies and structuring power of the collective unconscious. A detailed case example is presented of how the emergence of the vitalizing connection between the psyche and the soma, severed through traumatic early relations with parents or carers, allows the instinctual impulse of the Self to manifest, thereby reactivating the process of individuation.

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Transference/Counter‐Transference: Talion Law and Gratitude

Cited by 7 publications

References 3 publications

Enactments and amplification

Enactments and amplification

Listening With the Body: An Exploration in the Countertransference

Embodying analysis: the body and the therapeutic process

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