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Oedipal Love in the Countertransference
What it shows
Harold Searles developed Countertransference
Searles treated the analyst's own feelings, including love, hate and confusion, as central information about the patient and about the relationship. His selected papers on the subject appeared as Countertransference and Related Subjects (1979).
- 1959
Harold Searles reworked Oedipus complex
In 'Oedipal Love in the Countertransference' (1959), Searles described his own romantic and erotic feelings toward recovering patients and held that such responses, felt and contained by the analyst, help the analysis of the Oedipus complex succeed. Ogden reads this as a reconception of what that analysis requires.