Therapists naturally wish to always move forward and make progress, but accepting limitations is powerful. Saying goodbye can ...

Recently I got a referral from a low-fee referral center that is connected with my psychoanalytic training center. The patient’s fee was set at $100, which is considerably lower than my standard fee.

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Psychologists have told us that one of the most common behaviors we practice is transference, which occurs when people transfer feelings from past experiences to their current experiences. As with so ...

The author attempts to apply collective concepts to the individual. He conceptualizes the analytic dyad as a group of two and, consequently, individual relational psychoanalysis as a group ...

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Vol. 46, No. 3 (1986), pp. 105-109 (5 pages) The concept of countertransference is used in a broader sense (Heimann, Kernberg) or a more restricted one (Reich, Dewald ...

In a recent essay entitled “Are You My Mother?” Merve Emre, a frequent New Yorker contributor and a professor of creative writing and criticism at Wesleyan University, argues that it’s impossible to ...