Dealing With the Therapist's Vulnerablility to Depression

Type

Book

Authors

Heath, Sheldon

ISBN 13

9780876686126

Tags

Psychotherapists--Mental health, Depression, Mental, Psychotherapist and patient, Professional-Patient Relations, Psychotherapy

Description

The working life of every therapist can be negatively affected in varying degrees by a patient's reactive or endogenous depression or by symptoms such as futility, shame or guilt. In this book, Sheldon Heath describes how depressed patients can put their depression into others through projective identification. Therapists can introject these depressed feelings or psychic parts and, in turn, become depressed.

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