The Silent Transference: Clinical Reflections on Ferenczi, Klein, and Bion - Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD, Presenter

This paper represents my current understanding of the silent transference in light of my clinical experience and my psychoanalytic heritage of Ferenczi, Klein and Bion. By silent transference, I mean a transference that seemingly is not present in the therapy hour. I am using clinical examples from patients who were traumatized at birth by the dual challenges of being born medically compromised and separated immediately from their mothers.  They faced death as they were born.  The two-fold trauma impacted their internal object relations as well as their external relationships, including their relationship with me, and mine with them.
 
Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA is an IPA certified training and supervising psychoanalyst and a licensed child psychologist.  She has a private practice in Seattle where she also teaches, writes, and consults. She is a full faculty member of Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, of Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and of COR Northwest Family Development Center. Dr. Eekhoff is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis. Her writing emerges from her clinical experience.  Most recently she has been interested in infantile trauma and patients who are difficult to reach.