Robert Oelsner - Transference and Countertransference Today

THE NEW LIBRARY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

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Transference and Countertransference Today

Edited by Robert Oelsner

First published 2013

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Transference and countertransference today / edited by Robert Oelsner.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Transference (Psychology) 2. Countertransference (Psychology) I. Oelsner, Robert, editor of compilation.

RC489.T73T7273 2013

616.89--dc23

2012048872

ISBN: 978-0-415-83070-6 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-415-83071-3 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-49467-7 (ebk)

Marilia Aisenstein is a training and supervising analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society and the Hellenic Society. She is a past president of the Paris Psychosomatic Institute and is coeditor of the Revue Franaise de Psychosomatique. She now teaches in the Paris Psychosomatic Institute IPSO-MARTY and is in private practice, and has written articles and books in the field of psychoanalytical psychosomatics. She is presently the European representative to the Executive Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association.

Mirta Berman-Oelsner is a fellow of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association and the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society in Seattle. She is a training analyst and supervisor as well as an IPA Certified Child and Adolescent Psychoanalyst. She is faculty at the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society Institute and guest faculty of the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Program at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

Franco Borgogno, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society, and full professor of clinical psychology at the University of Turin, Italy. He is associate editor and on the editorial board of many European, North American, and South American psychoanalytic journals and the author of numerous books, including Psychoanalysis as a Journey, The Vancouver Interview, and The Young Lady Who Committed Hara-Kiri and Other Clinical and Historical Essays (Karnac, 2013). In 2010 he was chosen to receive the Mary S. Sigourney Award for outstanding contributions to psychoanalysis.

Arnaldo Chuster, MD, is a doctor in psychiatry and medical psychology, a member of the Brazilian Psychiatric Association, and a psychoanalyst and training and teaching analyst at the Rio de Janeiro Psychoanalytic Society, Brazil. An honorary member and professor at the Wilfred Bion Institute in Porto Alegre, he coordinates study groups on the work of Wilfred Bion in Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, and Ribeiro Preto, and has published 150 papers and seven books. His most recent book is O Objeto de Psicanlise: mudar o paradigma em psicanlise (The Psychoanalytic Object: Changing the Paradigm in Psychoanalysis).

Steven Cooper is a training and supervising analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute; supervising analyst and faculty, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis; clinical associate professor, Harvard Medical School; and joint editor-in-chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He is the author of two books, Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis (2000), and A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in TransferenceCountertransference Engagement (2010).

Cludio Laks Eizirik, MD, PhD, is associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil, and the former dean of the medical school. A training and supervising analyst in the Porto Alegre Psychoanalytic Society, he is a former president of the International Psychoanalytic Association and of FEPAL (Federacin Psicoanalitica de Amrica Latina). In his many writings he is particularly interested in analytic technique and training, the human life cycle and aging, and the interrelation of psychoanalysis and culture.

R. Horacio Etchegoyen obtained his MD from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association, and honorary professor of the University of Buenos Aires. A past president of APdeBA, the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, he was president of the International Psychoanalytical Association from 1993 to 1997, and since 2010 has been the honorary vice president of the IPA. A recipient of the Mary S. Sigourney Award in 1999, in 2011 he received the IPAs award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement. His book Fundamentals of Psychoanalytical Technique (Fundamentos de la tcnica psicoanaltica) is now available in English, Portuguese, Italian, and French, with German and Romanian editions in preparation.

Hayde Faimberg, MD, is a training and supervising analyst with the Socit psychanalytique de Paris and the Asociacin Psicoanaltica Argentina, and a former vice-president of the IPA. She is in private practice in Paris. Using a concept she initially coined for listening in the session, she created what came to be called the Hayde Faimberg listening to listening method for clinical group discussions. A recipient of the Haskell Norman Award in 2005, she has written on transmission of trauma between generations, the psychic consequences of Nazism in psychoanalytic patients, Lewis Carroll and Italo Calvino, and is a contributing author to fifteen books; her best-known book is The Telescoping of Generations: Listening to the Narcissistic Links between Generations (Routledge, 2005).

Abel Fainstein is a full member, training analyst, and former president of the Argentine Psychoanalytical Association, Buenos Aires (20002004), where he directed the H. Racker Clinic during the same years. He has served as chair of the Chicago IPA Congress program committee, and regional co-chair of the Rio de Janeiro IPA Congress program committee. He is a member of the Education Section of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis; board member of the Masters Degree Program in Psychoanalysis, USAL-APA; and professor of the Masters Degree Program in Psychoanalysis at La Matanza University, AEAPG, in Argentina.

Yolanda Gampel is a training and supervising analyst and a professor in the faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology and the Program of Advanced Psychotherapy, Sackler Medical School, Tel-Aviv University. She is past president of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society; vice-president, European Federation of Psychoanalysis; and the Representative for Europe, on the board of the International Psychoanalytic Association. She is a recipient of the Hayman International Prize for Published Work Pertaining to Traumatized Children and Adults (2001), and the Mary S. Sigourney Award (2006). She works as a researcher and psychoanalyst in the field of the impact of sociopolitical violence on children and adolescents, and is the author of books and articles on this theme.