Main description:

Gives the perspective of the rarely heard analysand on core psychoanalytic processes * Explores erotic transference, which is a key part of psychoanalysis * Looks at how the patient's personal experiences before analysis can shape their experience of analysis and beyond

Contents:

Introduction: Growing through the Erotic Transference, Part 1: The Story, 1. Meeting, 2. Testing Power and Potency, 3. Seduction, 4. Penetration, 5. Birth, 6. Father, 7. Mother, 8. Reparenting, 9. Unleashing Desire, 10. Female Potency, 11. Lifting my Foot to Leap, 12. Leaving Home, 13. Rage, 14. Teasing!, 15. Growing Beyond the Room, Part 2: Reflections, 16. Women's Power: Suffering, Gratitude, Turn-on, 17. Erotic Transference: Fear and Desire; Resistance or Transformation?, 18. Working with Sexual Abuse Survivors, 19. Transference Love or Real Love?, 20. Revoicing the Patient