Countertransference, time e fluctuating attention

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA
Author/s Adriana Gagliardi
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2017/1 Language Italian
Pages 19 P. 11-29 File size 225 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSP2017-001002
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The author supposes a particular type of countertranference that is activated in her by the time between the once a week sessions during a psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Due to the perceptual saturation in the vis-à-vis session, she has like a fluctuating attention to the patient. Between the vis-à-vis sessions, when the patient is not in front of her, she has a kind of rêverie that helps her to understand more deeply the relationship with the patient in the next sessions. Some clinic flashes are done to exemplify her hypothesis.

Keywords: Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, countertranference, once a week session, perceptual saturation, fluctuating attention in patient’s absence, rêverie in patient’s presence.

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Adriana Gagliardi, Controtransfert, tempo e attenzione fluttuante in "PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA" 1/2017, pp 11-29, DOI: 10.3280/PSP2017-001002