Some thoughts on empathy and countertransference

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 741-768

  Zepf, Siegfried ^a,c   Hartmann, Sebastian ^b,c  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Clinic for Psychosomatic Diseases   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; EMOTION; EMPATHY; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; IDENTITY; IMITATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; THINKING;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FREUDIAN THEORY; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; THINKING;

EID: 51649091956     PISSN: 00030651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003065108322460     Document Type: Article

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