#38 On Questioning our Patients

Dear Listeners, In this episode, we try to question how we interact with our patients, and more specifically how aggression can be at times expressed despite our conscious best intentions. This podcast, recorded a few months ago, is dedicated to our dear friend and colleague Peter Jaegerman who died recently. [0:28] Intro [02:02] How can we know that we are not attacking our patients? [4:58] How much do we rely on transference and counter-transference? [14:29] Does the analyst have a transference toward patients? [16:22] Virtue signaling? [18:33] Resistance and ambivalence [21:52] Aggression through agreement [29:37] The risk of oversimplifying the experience of our patients [38:33] Ending Share with us your comments or questions directly at discussionsonpsychoanalysis@pm.me or on twitter twitter.com/DiscusOnPsycha Facebook www.facebook.com/groups/249668092601494/ SoundCloud @user-296153775 iTunes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disc…is/id1454139315