I am not arguing here that countertransference love is not real; on the contrary much like the patient’s transference the analyst’s countertransference, I believe, is both real and not real at once.
— Avgi Saketopoulou
🧵Hot Tip for psychoanalytic practitioners and teachers: PsyA concepts can be dense. The mind is complex. A beautiful aspect of PsyA theory is it *honors* this complexity.
So when capable learners want clarification so they can digest some of the complexity, don’t answer in an
"Many patients are so terrified of emotional intimacy that they are driven over and over again to provoke crises that allow them to distance with impunity."
—Nancy McWilliams