Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Foreword

ANDREW SAMUELS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PAOLA VALERIO

Part I

Countertransference in work with individuals

Chapter 1: Between bodies: Working in the liminal zone with traumatised clients

NICOLA DIAMOND AND PAOLA VALERIO

Chapter 2: A therapist goes back to school: Therapeutic experience with three black boys at risk of exclusion

ONEL BROOKS

Chapter 3: A case of missing identity: Working with disassociation and 'multiple selves’ in the countertransference

MARIO MARRONE AND NICOLA DIAMOND

Chapter 4: Countertransference, art psychotherapy and the prediscursive abject

JANEK DUBOWSKI

Chapter 5: CBT Versus the unconscious: Ignore countertransference at your peril

ANGELA DEVON

Part II

Countertransference in the wider context in supervision, teaching, group therapy and in organisational work

Chapter 6: "Impossible to do, but possible to say": Using countertransference in the trainer-trainee relationship

RUSSEL AYLING, EGLE MEISTAITE AND PAOLA VALERIO

Chapter 7: 'Just don’t get involved': Countertransference and the group – Engaging with the projective processes in groups

CYNTHIA ROGERS

Chapter 8: Can organizations use countertransference to reflect?

SUZANNE WEEKS

Part III

Countertransference in reflective practice, research and in case studies co-written with patients in treatment

Chapter 9: Countertransference in reflective practice – An integrative approach to monitor self-awareness in clinical practice

SOFIE BAGER-CHARLESON

Chapter 10: Countertransference in Research: An intersubjective reflexive approach

SOFIE BAGER CHARLESON

Chapter 11: 'The Recovered Therapist': Working with body image disturbance and eating disorders – Researching the countertransference

LINDA VERBEEK

Chapter 12: Countertransference and the chance to dream

PAOLA VALERIO

Chapter 13: The so-called ‘countertransference’ and the mystery of the therapeutic encounter

ANASTASIOS GAITANIDIS

INDEX

About the Author

Paola Valerio is a BPC/UKCP reg. psychotherapist and senior lecturer at Roehampton University, where she convenes the psychodynamic theory and practice module on the Psych. D. She has been a visiting lecturer and supervisor in psychotherapy at Regents’ College, Surrey and Kent Universities and at the Tavistock and East London University.

Reviews

"As psychological therapists, what do you do with your thoughts and feelings that arise in the consulting room?Are you more 'person centred', only occasionally telling the client how they make you feel? Are you 'relational', thinking it would be wrong not to share something of yourself? Are you a 'Freudian', assuming it is important to maintain that blank screen? Are you a 'Lacanian', who thinks it would be persecutory to interpret the therapeutic relationship? Are you 'existential', valuing phenomenology's bracketing/ the epoché? Are you more 'behavioural', and consider your experiences of the client relatively unimportant? Or, are you none of these? If you ever wondered about any of them - this is the book to find answers! "Del Loewenthal, Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling, University of Roehampton, UK

"Valerio’s book is truthful about the emotional demands of taking countertransference work seriously: the potential shame that can arise when therapists are open about the sleepiness, disgust, anxiety and acting-out that our patients prompt or reawaken in us." – Karen Gold, British Journal of Music Therapy"Compelling reading, there is much for seasoned practitioners and students." Mog Scott-Stewart, New Psychotherapist"As psychological therapists, what do you do with your thoughts and feelings that arise in the consulting room?Are you more 'person centred', only occasionally telling the client how they make you feel? Are you 'relational', thinking it would be wrong not to share something of yourself? Are you a 'Freudian', assuming it is important to maintain that blank screen? Are you a 'Lacanian', who thinks it would be persecutory to interpret the therapeutic relationship? Are you 'existential', valuing phenomenology's bracketing/ the epoché? Are you more 'behavioural', and consider your experiences of the client relatively unimportant? Or, are you none of these? If you ever wondered about any of them - this is the book to find answers! "Del Loewenthal, Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling, University of Roehampton, UK‘A diverse and stimulating collection of essays on countertransference and the therapeutic process. Illustrated throughout with case study vignettes, this book should be a helpful resource for those wishing to deepen their understanding of the client-therapist relationship.’Mick Cooper, Professor of Counselling Psychology, University of Roehampton, UK