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OCNOPHILIA AND THE INTERPRETATION OF TRANSFERENCE
Author(s) -
Gerrard Jackie
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.2000.tb00536.x
Subject(s) - psychology , psychoanalytic theory , proposition , interpretation (philosophy) , argument (complex analysis) , focus (optics) , psychoanalysis , epistemology , psychotherapist , philosophy , linguistics , physics , optics , biochemistry , chemistry
This paper examines Balint's statements regarding ocnophilia and transference interpretations; namely his proposition that making transference inter pretations the over‐riding focus of psychoanalytic technique encourages an ocnophilic way of being and relating in the patient. The author is not convinced that this is so and presents her argument, which is later illustrated with four clinical vignettes.