Transference and Counter-Transference

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Summary: A classic:
Review: In this book, Heinrich Racker, a South American analyst influenced by Klein, offers the clinically invaluable categories of concordant and complementary contertransferences. The former term refers to the therapist's feeling (empathically) what the patient as a child had felt in relation to an early object; the latter connotes the therapist's feeling (unempathically, from the viewpoint of the client) what the object had felt toward the child. This classic is essential reading on the subject.