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Learning About Psychoanalysis Combined With Medication: A Nonphysician's pErspective

Susan A. Bers

495 Orange Street New Haven, CT 06511, susan.bers{at}yale.edu

When medication is at play in an analysis, the nonphysician candidate or psychoanalyst faces conceptual and practical challenges, as well as countertransference risks and opportunities. A psychologist psychoanalytic candidate describes the treatment of an analysand who underwent a gradual uncovering and worsening of obsessive-compulsive and anxiety symptoms; at twenty-one months, the analysand introduced the topic of medication. These developments brought to light transference and countertransference themes connected to the analyst's status as a nonphysician candidate; conceptual and practical uncertainties about medication in the context of psychoanalysis; the complex meanings of, and indications for, medication in this case; and the ramifications of a nonphysician candidate's referring a patient to a psychiatrist psychoanalyst for medication while being supervised by another psychiatrist psychoanalyst.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 54, No. 3, 805-831 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/00030651060540030301
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