Countertransference Analysis

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Karl Konig's pithy book, Countertransference Analysis, is unusual in its scope, wisdom, and scholarship. It demonstrates once again Konig's ability to synthesize his wide experience in order to bring a fresh point of view to our work. He is knowledgeable about the literature and trends in a wide variety of analytic cultures including American Ego Psychology, British Object Relations, German contemporary psychoanalysis, and international group analysis. But Konig moves beyond book learning to demonstrate a unique personal combination of rigor and flexibility, technical understanding and intuition, wisdom, and common sense. Psychoanalytic veterans and students alike will find this book a treasure house-on the one hand a reference that guides them through the pitfalls common to our work, and on the other hand an essay that penetrates to the very nature of our profession and its challenges. -- David E. Scharff, M.D., International Psychotherapy Institute and the IPA Committee on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis