The papers in this volume were commissioned with a view to describing the current views of countertransference, and thier historical evolution, in four intellectual communities of psychoanalysis: North America, Britain, France and Latin America.

Robert Michels, Liliane Abensour, Claudio Laks Eizirik, Richard Rusbridger

Introduction, 1: Countertransference past and present: a review of the concept, 2: Countertransference 3: The countertransference: a Latin American view, 4: The countertransference scene in France