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Also available in an open-access, full-text edition athttp://txspace.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/88025/Weiner_Therape_9781603441476_txt.pdf?sequence=4 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. (20100701)
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Number Fourteen Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology David H. Rosen, General Editor
The Carolyn and Ernest Fay edited book series, based initially on the annual Fay Lecture Series in Analytical Psychology, was established to further the ideas of C. G. Jung among students, faculty, therapists, and other citizens and to enhance scholarly activities related to analytical psychology. The Book Series and Lecture Series address topics of importance to the individual and to society. Both series were generously endowed by Carolyn Grant Fay, the founding president of the C. G. Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas. The series are in part a memorial to her late husband, Ernest Bel Fay. Carolyn Fay has planted a Jungian tree carrying both her name and that of her late husband, which will bear fruitful ideas and stimulate creative works from this time forward. Texas A&M University and all those who come in contact with the growing Fay Jungian tree are extremely grateful to Carolyn Grant Fay for what she has done. The holder of the McMillan Professorship in Analytical Psychology at Texas A&M functions as the general editor of the Fay Book Series.
The Therapeutic Relationship
The Therapeutic Relationship Transference, Countertransference, and the Making of Meaning
ja n wi en er Foreword by David H. Rosen
Texas A&M University Press • College Station
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wiener, Jan. The therapeutic relationship : transference, countertransference, and the making of meaning / Jan Wiener ; foreword by David H. Rosen. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Carolyn and Ernest Fay series in analytical psychology ; no. 14) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-60344-147-6 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-60344-147-6 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Transference (Psychology). 2. Countertransference (Psychology). 3. Psychotherapist and patient. 4. Jungian psychology. I. Title. II. Series: Carolyn and Ernest Fay series in analytical psychology ; no. 14. RC489.T73.W45 2009 616.89'17—dc22 2009010424
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