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This book describes, defines and demonstrates the clinical applications of transference and projection and how they are used by psychotherapists as 'mirrors to the self' - as reflections of a client's internal structure and core ways of relating to other people. There is an emphasis on understanding transference as a normal organizing process that helps individuals make sense of interpersonal experiences. There is also a focus on how to respond effectively to transference and projection in the day-to-day practice of counselling and psychotherapy. Comprehensive coverage of the ways in which the major schools of psychotherapy understand and utilize such phenomena is also provided. Theoretical principles are illustrated by lively clinical anecdotes from the authors' own psychotherapy practices.

Transference and Projection is aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of psychotherapy, counselling, counselling psychology and clinical psychology. It will also be of interest to therapy students in professional training courses and experienced clinicians who want to know more about this aspect of psychotherapy.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Series editor's preface (p. xi)
• Preface (p. xv)
• Acknowledgements (p. xix)
• 1 Mirrors to the self: an introduction to transference (p. 1)
• Introducing transference (p. 1)
• A working definition of transference (p. 4)
• Transference and the unconscious (p. 5)
• Why is transference important? (p. 6)
• Three major ways of understanding transference (p. 8)
• Communicating the transference (p. 9)
• Transference and brief psychotherapy (p. 11)
• Using transference and projection to understand the internal self (p. 12)
• Promotion of the transference (p. 12)
• Working with transference and projection (p. 13)
• Resistance to transference (p. 13)
• Interpretations and transference (p. 14)
• Conclusion (p. 16)
• 2 Projection and projective identification (p. 18)
• Introduction (p. 18)
• Projection (p. 20)
• Projection in daily life (p. 22)
• Projection in cyberspace (p. 23)
• Projection in therapy groups (p. 24)
• Projective identification (p. 26)
• Why is projective identification important? (p. 30)
• Some principles in working with projective identification (p. 31)
• Conclusion (p. 33)
• 3 Early development of the understanding of transference (p. 34)
• Introduction (p. 34)
• Freud's discovery of transference (p. 35)
• Transference in the work of Melanie Klein (p. 41)
• 4 Developments in understanding transference: psychodynamic psychotherapies (p. 46)
• Introduction (p. 46)
• Object relations (p. 46)
• Working with transference in object relations therapy (p. 48)
• Self psychology (p. 51)
• Working with transference in self psychology (p. 53)
• Intersubjective approaches (p. 55)
• Working with transference from an intersubjective perspective (p. 55)
• Brief psychodynamic psychotherapy (p. 57)
• Working with transference in brief psychodynamic therapy (p. 58)
• Conclusion (p. 60)
• 5 Schemas and scripts: cognitive-behavioural therapy and transference (p. 62)
• Introduction (p. 62)
• Cognitive-behavioural therapy and the therapeutic relationship (p. 63)
• Schema and script theory (p. 63)
• Transference phenomena as in vivo interventions (p. 67)
• Cognitive therapy approaches to understanding transference (p. 68)
• Working with 'transference' in cognitive-behavioural therapy (p. 69)
• Working with 'projection' in cognitive-behavioural therapy (p. 72)
• Conclusion (p. 73)
• 6 The real relationship: transference and humanistic-existential/experiential therapies (p. 74)
• Introduction (p. 74)
• Person-centred/humanistic approaches (p. 75)
• Existential and experiential approaches (p. 77)
• Gestalt therapy (p. 82)
• Gestalt therapy, projection and projective identification (p. 85)
• Psychodrama (p. 86)
• Conclusion (p. 90)
• 7 The transference prism: couples and family therapy (p. 92)
• Introduction (p. 92)
• Understanding couple and family relationships (p. 96)
• The process of conjoint therapy (p. 103)
• A resource for facilitating change in relationships (p. 107)
• Conclusion (p. 112)
• 8 Recognizing and responding to transference (p. 113)
• Introduction (p. 113)
• The essential features of transference (p. 114)
• Transference as an unconscious organizing activity (p. 114)
• The complex origins of transference (p. 115)
• Transference involves persistent perceptions of the other (p. 116)
• Recognizing transference (p. 117)
• Positive and negative transferences (p. 117)
• Erotic transference (p. 119)
• Selfobject transferences: mirroring, idealizing and twinship transferences (p. 121)
• The two triangles of transference (p. 123)
• Transference and change (p. 128)
• Responding to transference and projection (p. 131)
• Conclusion (p. 134)
• References (p. 136)
• Index (p. 149)

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