Caroline Sehon, MD, FABP IPA Prague Congress Panel Report. The Analyst’s Pain as published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis; 94(6):1177-1180. doi.org/10.1111/1745 8315.12153
Inspired and chaired by Theodore Jacobs, the IPA panel entitled "The Analyst's Pain" aimed t investigate the analytic situation in which we are subject to periods of extremely intense "pain" during the course of our day-to-day work as analysts. For this panel the analysts;s "pain" referred to extremely powerful positive or negative affects, such as rage, terror, hatred, impotence, heart-wrenching sorrow and sexual arousal. Often these affects are evoked by a trying patient who acts out, for example, in a manipulative, provocative, hostile and seductive ways within the transference.