What is psychoanalysis? Is it relevant to today's mental health crisis? How can
psychoanalysis help people suffering from psychological distress and illness? This vital new …

Attachment matters: its role, development, maintenance, and disruption are major themes in
the social and biological sciences. Rooted in the work of Darwin and Freud, attachment …

A Practical Psychoanalytic Guide to Reflexive Research offers an accessible guide to
enriched qualitative research. In this novel approach, the researcher's feelings and empathy …

While the construct of countertransference has been established in psychodynamic theory
since its inception, it has received relatively little attention from cognitive-behavioral …

Background Previous findings showed that suicidal patients elicit mostly negative
countertransference such as distress, hopelessness, feelings of inadequacy, and …

Psychotherapists can experience various kinds of emotions in response to their patients'
communications and behaviors over the course of therapy. These may be understood in the …

Despite its critical role in clinical suicidology, empirical evidence on the nature of
countertransference (CT) to patients at risk for suicide (PRS) is lacking. This study aimed to …

Trauma theory has become a burgeoning site of research in recent decades, often
demanding interdisciplinary reflections on trauma as a phenomenon that defies disciplinary …

—WilfreD bion (1975, p. 15) Psychoanalysis as a discipline is based on what is not known. It
has been argued in fact that Freud's singular contribution to the field of ethics is his …

Where the study of organizations involves prolonged or deep engagement with informants,
the research experience can generate psychodynamic reactions. Countertransference—or …