Jan Wiener

Jan Wiener is the London-based Jungian analyst whose The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference, and the Making of Meaning (2009) is the contemporary standard treatment of the analytic relationship from within the developmental tradition of British analytical psychology. A training analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology, she has served as Director of Training and as a past Chair of the International Association for Analytical Psychology.

Her work continues the lineage of Michael Fordham, bringing the developmental Jungian reading of the transference — the analytic relationship as the site where the damaged ego-self-axis is repaired through sustained, affectively specific encounter — into conversation with contemporary psychoanalytic and attachment literatures. For the Seba lineage, Wiener’s work is the clinical-theoretical apparatus behind the claim that individuation, when it occurs in analysis, is carried by the relationship and not by interpretation alone. See wiener-therapeutic-relationship-transference.

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