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  • Title: Countertransference and the myth of the perfectly analyzed analyst.
    Author: Silverman MA.
    Journal: Psychoanal Q; 1985 Apr; 54(2):175-99. PubMed ID: 4001237.
    Abstract:
    Countertransference is an inevitable feature of every psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysts are (and need to be) only human; psychoanalytic work is arduous and replete with stresses, strains, and deprivations; analysands tend to probe for vulnerabilities in their analysts that can be exploited in the interest of acting out neurotic wishes instead of analyzing them; and a training analysis cannot completely immunize a psychoanalyst against countertransferential reactions that impede analytic progress. Psychoanalysts must be vigilant to the emergence of countertransference reactions so that they can analyze and overcome them. Two illustrative clinical examples are provided.
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