An American-Japanese transcultural psychoanalysis and the issue of teacher transference.
In this paper I have presented the narrative of my own didactic analysis, involving the interchange between an analysand from a Japanese background and an analyst from an American background. As I reflected on my own experience, I discovered what I have called the "teacher transference" as a significant dynamic process within this transcultural analysis. I would like to propose that this teacher transference may be an issue deserving attention in other psychoanalytic relationships and to advance the idea that, in a transcultural analysis, the analyst is not necessarily a stranger. Overall, I hope this paper will contribute to transcultural psychoanalytic theory and to a nonmonolithic understanding of the Japanese and Japanese culture.
Taketomo
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Department of Psychiatry, Montefiore Medical Center/The Jack D. Weiler Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology; D003469:Culture; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013663:Teaching; D014167:Transference, Psychology; D014481:United States