Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper examines Balint's statements regarding ocnophilia and transference interpretations; namely his proposition that making transference inter pretations the over‐riding focus of psychoanalytic technique encourages an ocnophilic way of being and relating in the patient. The author is not convinced that this is so and presents her argument, which is later illustrated with four clinical vignettes.

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