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Transference: A cognitive approach

Transference: A cognitive approach A COGNITIVE TRANSFERENCE" APPROACH* Allan Mallinger In this paper, I shall seek to reevaluate traditional concepts of transference and will include my own opinions concerning the phenomenon. Classical concepts from Freud to Fenichel to Greenson will be examined first. Then, some ideas of the cultural school, as represented by Sullivan and Horney, will be considered. Transference is commonly described as the phenomenon in which a person feels and acts toward something or someone as though that person or thing is one that he encountered earlier in his life. The classical point of view is that the patient is actually reliving a past object rela- tionship. According to Freud, Fenichel, Greenson, and the other classicists, the patient is constantly looking for someone new who will gratify repressed, infantile, libidinal strivings which have not been satisfied by the original objects,~ - the parents. Repressed impulses are always exerting pressure upon the patient to, obtain their gratification, and he unwittingly complies. 1 It is under this pressure, and in the service of relief from it, that the patient mistakes the new for the old, the therapist for, say, his father. The need to fulfill instinctual strivings causes the patient to make a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Transference: A cognitive approach

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 34 (1): 11 – Mar 1, 1974

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Springer Journals
Copyright
1974 APS Publications, Inc.
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01252739
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Abstract

A COGNITIVE TRANSFERENCE" APPROACH* Allan Mallinger In this paper, I shall seek to reevaluate traditional concepts of transference and will include my own opinions concerning the phenomenon. Classical concepts from Freud to Fenichel to Greenson will be examined first. Then, some ideas of the cultural school, as represented by Sullivan and Horney, will be considered. Transference is commonly described as the phenomenon in which a person feels and acts toward something or someone as though that person or thing is one that he encountered earlier in his life. The classical point of view is that the patient is actually reliving a past object rela- tionship. According to Freud, Fenichel, Greenson, and the other classicists, the patient is constantly looking for someone new who will gratify repressed, infantile, libidinal strivings which have not been satisfied by the original objects,~ - the parents. Repressed impulses are always exerting pressure upon the patient to, obtain their gratification, and he unwittingly complies. 1 It is under this pressure, and in the service of relief from it, that the patient mistakes the new for the old, the therapist for, say, his father. The need to fulfill instinctual strivings causes the patient to make a

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The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Mar 1, 1974

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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