Counter-Transferential Conflicts as Emergent Relational Properties and “Symptoms” of the Analyst

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This paper explores the co-construction of power and authority in Francesca Colzani’s case study. In addition it introduces the Freudian concept of negation as an aide to the identification of self states that are only partially formulated.

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Gillian Straker

Gillian Straker, Ph.D., is a clinical professor in psychology at the University of Sydney and visiting research professor University of Witwatersrand. She is a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Scholar. She has worked with UNHCR and with detainee support services in South Africa and is involved in the Apartheid Archives Project. Her book Faces in the Revolution traces the lives of township activists. She has published papers on continuing traumatic stress, whiteness, and racism. She is a supervisor on a number of psychotherapy training programs and has a private practice in Sydney.