A "countertransference cure" evoked by enactment.
A psychotherapeutic impasse, the product of projective identification, led to a countertransference enactment that had an immediate, profound, and beneficial effect on the patient that persisted and was explored during the therapy. The change was confirmed in a 20-year follow-up. The theoretical basis for this change is discussed from the point of view of the implications of enactment and using a model of personality change through life experience.
Cornell University Medical College and the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research, New York.
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