Coasting in the countertransference : conflicts of self interest between analyst and patient /
Irwin Hirsch
- New York : Analytic Press, 2008
- xv, 220 p. ; 23 cm.
- Psychoanalysis in a new key book series ; v. 7 .
- Psychoanalysis in a new key book series ; v. 7 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-215) and index
Coasting in the countertransference: analysts' pursuit of self interest -- The influence of situational factors, in analysts' lives and preferred relational states, on analytic participation -- Analysts' character structure and the wish for emotional equilibrium -- Preferred patients, preferred relational configurations -- Psychoanalytic theory and its unexamined comforts -- Baldness -- Money and the therapeutic frame -- Money and the ongoing therapeutic relationship references