title: The candidate and the patient: some transferential and counter-transferential aspects of the reality of apprenticeship.
abstract: This paper examines the impact of apprenticeship on the analytic process. It describes how the reality of the apprenticeship appears in or even intrudes into the transference-counter-transference dialogue. The clinical examples illustrate the use of candidate-analyst's reality as a defence. In the authors' opinion, the realistic aspects of the apprenticeship should be analysed as a part of the transference and counter-transference. The candidate is in a narcissistically vulnerable position between the analysand and the institute, and therefore prone to a Talion-like response and to displacement of aggression. An appropriate working through of apprenticeship difficulties should take place in a double dialectical process between candidate and analysand, and between candidate and institute representatives.
authors.affiliation: Program of Psychotherapy, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Granek
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Neilman
mesh_terms: D003379:Countertransference; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy; D014167:Transference, Psychology