Böcker av Herbert S. Strean

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Presents the fundamentals of theory and technique of psychoanalytic treatment, valuable for psychotherapists and students. Begins with a review of Freud's theory of personality and its modifications, and discusses transference and countertransference reactions; unconscious meanings of problems and

Addresses the problem of therapists' counterresistances - the fantasies, defenses and other elements of the therapist's own psychological makeup that can impede the therapeutic process.

Teases out and examines the therapist's role in the divorce. The author challenges recommending appropriate interventions for sustaining the therapeutic relationship at whatever stage termination is threatened, be it right at the outset, during the honeymoon phase, in the face of the first treatment crisis, or later still.