BPF Scientific Meeting: Hot Feelings: Sexual transference and countertransference with two male mid-adolescents and a female psychoanalyst.
Some analysts have raised concerns that sexuality seems to have moved out of psychoanalysis. The handling of erotic transference and countertransference can be challenging with adult patients, but also with adolescent analysands. Only relatively recently are clinicians, particularly women, publishing in this area. Jennifer Davids M.Sc. will argue that silence about hot feelings in the consulting room has led to silence in case discussions and subsequent silence in the literature.
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Description
Some analysts have raised concerns that sexuality seems to have moved out of psychoanalysis. The handling of erotic transference and countertransference can be challenging with adult patients, but also with adolescent analysands. Only relatively recently are clinicians, particularly women, publishing in this area. I argue that silence about hot feelings in the consulting room has led to silence in case discussions and subsequent silence in the literature. I will consider what I call open-bodiedness on the part of the analyst. The use of reverie is described. The obstacles of publication and post-publication anxiety are discussed.
This talk is open to all members of the BPF and all BPF trainees. Due to the content of the talk, the talk will not be recorded. By registering, you the attendee are also agreeing to not record or disseminate the presentation and discussion.
about the speaker
Jennifer Davids M.Sc. Clinical Psychology is a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst. She completed the full time 4 year training at the Anna Freud centre and worked as a staff member there for over 20 years. Jennifer also worked in the NHS as a consultant child psychotherapist. A Fellow as well as a supervising analyst for child and adolescent psychoanalysis at the BPAS and IPCAPA, she lives, writes and works in London. She has published widely and teaches internationally.