On Freud's "Observations on Transference Love" (The Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues Series)

The contributors to this volume place in context Freud’s evolving thinking; focus on what it tells us about love, female sexuality and conventional morality; discuss the role of the therapist in the genesis of the patient’s transference love; explore the differences between revering, reliving and enacting; and examine Freud’s theory in the light of current developments in psychoanalytic thought. The essays illuminate a persistent problem in all modalities of psychotherapy: unfortunate, often tragic, enactments of erotic transference and countertransference.

Dawn R. Person is Professor of Counseling and Student Development in Higher Education, California State University at Long Beach.

Peter Fonagy PhD FBA is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London. He is Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London. He is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psycho-Analytical Society in child and adult analysis. He has published over 200 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books.