Countertransference-Derived Elaboration of Religious Conflicts and Representational States

Moshe Halevi Spero, Ph.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 49, Number 1

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1995.49.1.68

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Polysemous qualities of the patient’s use of language and metaphor are among the subtle factors involved in the creation of an ambience conducive to projective identification, leading to the evolution of countertransference crises in the psychotherapist. Carefully interpreted countertransference crises provide pathways to conceptualizing the early substrata of the world of religious representations and intrapsychic object relations.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 49 • Number 1 • 1995, pp. 1–158

Pages: 68 - 94

PubMed: 7762700

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Published in print: 1995, pp. 1–158

Published online: 30 April 2018

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Moshe Halevi Spero, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, School of Social Work and Postgraduate Institute of Psychotherapy, Bar-Ilan University; Senior Clinical Psychologist, Sarah Herzog Hospital, Department of Psychiatry (2).

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Mailing Address: 66/13 Shaulsohn, Har Nof, Jerusalem, 95400, Israel.

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Countertransference-Derived Elaboration of Religious Conflicts and Representational States

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