This paper proposes that countertransference dreams may serve as indicators and help deal with difficult crisis in the psychoanalytic process. The transferential field defines the difficulties which the analyst has to deal with. The analyst is always involved in this field. A fragment of a clinical case of the author, in which a countertransference dream had an important role, is used as an example. This paper proposes that countertransference dreams may serve as indicators and help deal with difficult crisis in the psychoanalytic process. The transferential field defines the difficulties which the analyst has to deal with. The analyst is always involved in this field. A fragment of a clinical case of the author, in which a countertransference dream had an important role, is used as an example.
Superego and perversion
(2003)
Considers whether or not the capacity to love is a measurable area of growth in Maslow's self-actualizing person. Two testing instruments, Everett Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory and an instrument developed by the author using the work of May, FROMM, Maslow, and Sorokin, were used to study this. Results indicate that Maslow's Being or B-love – selfless love for the other – is definitely re-lated to self-actualization.