Press, Jacques

Narcissism of the Analyst and the Function of Theory in Psychosomatics - 2004.


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The author hypothesizes that the very formulation of psychosomatic theory expresses counter-transference, induced by a number of patients with somatic disorders. He relates this 'counter-transference to the theory'? to the narcissistic difficulties encountered by the analyst when confronted with the psychosomatic fact.