Growing Through the Erotic Transference

The book offers an in-depth case study of the erotic transference experienced by a female analysand with her male analyst, exploring how the shifting phases of erotic transference help the analysand to understand, rediscover and redefine herself with transformative growth.

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Frances H. Moore first graduated as a performing musician from one of the major music conservatoires, before gaining a Masters and a PhD in Anthropology of Music as a scholar at an Ivy League University. Her first published academic book is based on this PhD.

After transitioning to work in International Business, she completed an Executive MBA. She now specializes in leadership development, culture change and engagement strategies for international organizations going through major transformations. She has lived in three continents and has worked in over 20 countries.

Moore is passionate about helping others grow and find their full voices in particular girls and women. She was a volunteer teacher for a year in Africa and continues to mentor and train for young people's organisations. She was founding trustee/ executive board member for two women's charities. She has written and published three children's books with brave, strong girl characters to counteract the passive princess stereotypes of the traditional tales.

In the wake of her own marriage breakdown, the 'quest for voice' became deeply personal. As an analysand, she immersed herself in the experience of analysis and voraciously absorbed the psychoanalytic literature as she followed her own transformative path. Her powerful experiences of the erotic transference are chronicled in this book.

The author is publishing this book under an adjusted name, to respect the privacy of her family.

Inhalt

Introduction: Growing through the Erotic Transference, Part 1: The Story, 1. Meeting, 2. Testing Power and Potency, 3. Seduction, 4. Penetration, 5. Birth, 6. Father, 7. Mother, 8. Reparenting, 9. Unleashing Desire, 10. Female Potency, 11. Lifting my Foot to Leap, 12. Leaving Home, 13. Rage, 14. Teasing!, 15. Growing Beyond the Room, Part 2: Reflections, 16. Women's Power: Suffering, Gratitude, Turn-on, 17. Erotic Transference: Fear and Desire; Resistance or Transformation?, 18. Working with Sexual Abuse Survivors, 19. Transference Love or Real Love?, 20. Revoicing the Patient