Harold Searles

Harold Searles (1918 -…) American Psychanalyste is a contemporary, in the filiation of the Hungarian school of psychoanalysis (Ferenczi), which studied more particularly the question of the Psychose, of the Schizophrénie S and the personalities borders. He worked with the famous private clinic Chesnut Lodge in Maryland, the United States, internationally known establishment for the pilot part which he played in the intensive psychotherapy approach of the schizophrenes.

Influenced by work of Harry Stack Sullivan, Searles developed the design of the counter-transference. The counter-transference term refers to the emotional reaction of the therapeutist with regard to the customer. These emotions are used, the therapeutist must include/understand who does in him in his reaction to the patient to be able to help that Ci.

In its books, Harold Searles developed ideas close to the concept of projective identification and the concept of double constraint.

Harold Searles is today and although that debatable, is often associated with the current inter subjectivist who dominates the American school of psychoanalysis.

Work

• "Against Transfer ". Gallimard. 1981. ISBN 2070307123
• " My experiment with the states-limites". Gallimard. 1994. ISBN 2070729702
• " Effort to return the other fou." Gallimard. 1977. ISBN 2070427633
• " Environment not humain" , Gallimard, 1986, ISBN 207070680X