Affect Intolerance in Patient and Analyst

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He encourages therapists to broaden their perspectives, consult with colleagues, listen to others, write about their difficulties, work in peer supervision, and perhaps even go back to treatment themselves. He counsels them to study one another's difficult cases in a spirit of collegiality to learn what is most effective for patients. Coen shares his own experiences in troublesome clinical situations to help other therapists identify similar difficulties. He shows how all therapists can be prepared to catch their own vulnerabilities and discomforts with their patients' passions, and how they can then subject their feelings to self-scrutiny. By seeking to understand and confront their struggles with the feelings that their patients arouse, therapists can more fully help their patients work out their conflicts and to expand their emotional depth. A

Part 1 What Makes Affect Intolerable for the Patient and Therapist? Chapter 2 Barriers to Love between Patient and Therapist Chapter 3 How to Help Patients and Therapists Bear the Unbearable Chapter 4 Managing Rage and Hate in the Treatment Setting Part 5 What is the Therapist's Role in Helping the Patient Develop Affect Intolerance? Chapter 6 Dangerous Need and Desire Chapter 7 Perverse Defenses in Neurotic Patients Chapter 8 The Wish to Regress in Patient and Therapist Chapter 9 How Much Does the Therapist at Work Need to Feel? Part 10 Helping Therapist Affect Tolerance through Taking and Writing About our Work Chapter 11 Discussing Colleagues' Therapeutic Work Chapter 12 Why We Need to Write Openly about Our Clinical Cases Chapter 13 Applications of Child Development Research to Adult Treatment Chapter 14 The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Interpretation