The psychoanalytic treatment center as a transference object.
Three Treatment Center cases are presented. They reveal resistances and technical difficulties having to do with a split in the transference-the analyst viewed as the depriving mother and the Institute viewed as the nurturant grandmother. Possible implications for the conduct of student analyses are described.
D000047:Academies and Institutes; D000328:Adult; D001010:Anxiety, Separation; D005249:Fees and Charges; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D014167:Transference, Psychology