Countertransference-Derived Elaboration of Religious Conflicts and Representational States
Abstract
Polysemous qualities of the patient’s use of language and metaphor are among the subtle factors involved in the creation of an ambience conducive to projective identification, leading to the evolution of countertransference crises in the psychotherapist. Carefully interpreted countertransference crises provide pathways to conceptualizing the early substrata of the world of religious representations and intrapsychic object relations.
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