Episode 6: Not Messing Around: The Pleasures Of Being A Mean Girl
About this episode
Rachael explores the complexities of her countertransference and the patient's unconscious dynamics in clinical practice.
In this episode, Rachael encounters the uncanny intelligence of the patient's unconscious. The patient, having criticised Rachael for her “messy” management of her clinical practice then adopts the same management style and surreptitiously benefits from it. Feeling guilty, the patient has a dream revealing these dynamics but withholds her insights from Rachael. This produces a desire in Rachael to be mean and partake of the jouissance of revenge. By unpacking her own unconscious with Gill, it becomes clear to Rach that her countertransference wish is a clue to the patient's fear, which is preventing her from surrendering into the patient position.
More episodes of Three Associating: Adventures in Relational Psychoanalytic Supervision
- Episode 3: Fostering Dependence And Nurturing Independence
- Episode 2: The Impenetrable Couple - Therapist As Third Wheel
- Episode 1: I Used ChatGPT And I Still Got Castrated
- Episode 8: Hot Shrink For A Hot Minute: Erotic Transference Part II
- Episode 7: Jetlagging: The Unconscious Hiding In Plane Sight
- Episode 5: Up Against The Limit: Staring Into The Void
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