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Some Notes on "Transference."

Some Notes on "Transference." SOME NOTES ON "TRANSFERENCE"1 BY SMITH ELY JELLIFFE, M.D., PH.D. Adjunct Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital; Visiting Neurologist, City Hospital, New York N a recent comment onBrill's series of papers on Psychan- alysis, the reviewer has spoken of the subject of Trans- ference as "electrically charged," and as being "gingerly handled." I can very well understand this attitude, and in offering some observations concerning the subject of transference, I do so with the recognition that I am enter- ing a field of more than usual complexity, — one that is filled with potentialities for good and evil and one which needs much care in interpretation. And yet, at the same time, the whole psychoanlytic situation, so far as successful therapy is concerned, is intimately bound up in the transference, and one whose purpose it is to attempt to get at the causes for good or bad therapy, must needs view this situation as compre- hensively as possible. Stated categorically and baldly, for the sake of bringing the subject up for discussion, I may say that without proper transference a successful therapy for the psychoneuroses is impossible. The members of this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Abnormal Psychology American Psychological Association

Some Notes on "Transference."

Jelliffe, S. E.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology , Volume 8 (5): 8 – Dec 1, 1913
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SOME NOTES ON "TRANSFERENCE"1 BY SMITH ELY JELLIFFE, M.D., PH.D. Adjunct Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital; Visiting Neurologist, City Hospital, New York N a recent comment onBrill's series of papers on Psychan- alysis, the reviewer has spoken of the subject of Trans- ference as "electrically charged," and as being "gingerly handled." I can very well understand this attitude, and in offering some observations concerning the subject of transference, I do so with the recognition that I am enter- ing a field of more than usual complexity, — one that is filled with potentialities for good and evil and one which needs much care in interpretation. And yet, at the same time, the whole psychoanlytic situation, so far as successful therapy is concerned, is intimately bound up in the transference, and one whose purpose it is to attempt to get at the causes for good or bad therapy, must needs view this situation as compre- hensively as possible. Stated categorically and baldly, for the sake of bringing the subject up for discussion, I may say that without proper transference a successful therapy for the psychoneuroses is impossible. The members of this

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Published: Dec 1, 1913

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