Psychoanalytic clinicians often encounter the complexities of erotic transference and countertransference, yet struggle with conceptual frameworks and language that adequately capture these intense, often ambiguous experiences. Traditional models can obscure the subtle intersubjective and developmental meanings of erotic material, resulting in impasses or missed therapeutic opportunities.

This presentation aims to expand clinicians’ capacity to think about and work with erotic dynamics that emerge within the analytic dyad. Drawing on contemporary psychoanalytic theory, particularly relational and developmental perspectives, Dr. Schoen will examine how erotic experiences in the transference may reflect unconscious longings for recognition, repair, and vitality.

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