The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference, and the Making of Meaning
Book Details
- Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
- Published : 2017
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 168
- Category :
Jung and Analytical Psychology - Catalogue No : 40421
- ISBN 13 : 9781623495480
- ISBN 10 : 1623495482
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While C. G. Jung had a natural intuitive understanding of the transference and countertransference, his lack of a coherent method and clinical technique for working with transference and his ambivalence and mercurial attitude to matters of method, have, in the words of therapist and Jungian scholar Jan Wiener, sometimes left Jungians who are eager to hone their knowledge and skills in this area floundering and confused. Her aim in this important book is to lay the groundwork for the development of a more contemporary Jungian approach to working with transference and countertransference dynamics within the therapeutic relationship. Her work is also informed by knowledge from other fields, such as philosophy, infant development, neuroscience, and the arts.
In The Therapeutic Relationship, Wiener makes a central distinction between working in the transference and working with the transference, advocating a flexible approach that takes account of the different kinds of attachment patients can make to their therapists. She develops her own concept of the transference matrix, a model that honors one of Jung's core beliefs in the development of a symbolic capacity as an essential task of psychotherapy, but at the same time acknowledges that a capacity to symbolize can only emerge through relationship.
About the Author(s)
Jan Wiener is a training analyst and supervisor for the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP) and a previous director of training. She continues in the role of internal consultant to the training at the SAP. She was vice president of the International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP) from 2010 until 2013 and a member of the IAAP Executive Committee for six years before that where she had responsibility for the development of the IAAP Router Programmes in different parts of the world. Post-perestroika, together with a group of UK colleagues from different Institutes, she visited different cities in Russia several times a year for more than twenty-five years to provide a programme of teaching, supervision and personal analysis for those wishing to become Jungian analysts who until then had no access to qualified analysts and teachers. Since then, she has taught and supervised extensively in many different parts of the world and is a member of the Training Committee for the Danish Institute (DSAP). She is an external examiner for the Association of Jungian Analysts (AJA) and she has recently completed terms of office as external examiner for the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London and the University of Exeter. She is the author of many papers and chapters on themes such as the analytic relationship, transference and countertransference, unconscious identity, training, supervision and ethics and author/editor of four books. Her book The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference and the Making of Meaning was published by Texas A and M University Press in 2009 and has recently been republished by Jungianeum in 2024 as part of a project to republish classic texts in analytical psychology. Her most recent book, Jungian Analysts Working Across Cultures: From Tradition to Innovation (Crowther and Wiener, Eds.) was published by Routledge in 2021.
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