Books by Charles J. Gelso

Explores the inner world of the psychotherapist and its influences on the relationship between psychotherapist and patient. This title presents the history and status of countertransference, offers a integrative conception, and focuses on how psychotherapists can manage countertransference in a way that benefits the therapeutic process.

Human beings are social creatures, and from the moment we enter the world, our personal horizons are defined by our relationships with others. Parents, siblings, teachers, friends, lovers, colleagues-even the countless strangers with whom we interact during the course of any given day-we exist through them and they through us.