Heinrich Racker
Introduction '''Heinrich Racker''' (1910, Poland – 28 January 1961, Buenos Aires) was a Polish-Argentine psychoanalyst of Austrian-Jewish origin. Escaping Nazism, he fled to Buenos Aires in 1939.Already a doctor in musicology and philosophy, he became a psychoanalyst, first under the direction of Jeanne Lampl-de Groot, and later working with Ángel Garma and Marie Langer in Argentina. His most important work is a study of the psychoanalytic technique known as transference and countertransference, which was published for the first time in 1968.His brother, Efraim Racker, was a famous biochemist.
Works * "Observaciones sobre la contratransferencia como instrumento técnico," ''Revista de psicoanálisis de la Asociacíon psicoanalítica argentina'', 1951* 'A contribution to the problem of countertransference', ''International Journal of Psycho-Analysis'' 34:4 (1953), 313–324. * "The meanings and uses of countertransference," ''Psychoanalytic Quarterly'' 26:3 (1957), 303–357. * ''Psicoanálisis del espíritu; consideraciones psicoanalíticas sobre filosofía, religión, antropología, caracterología, música, literatura, cine'', Buenos Aires: Nova. A.P.A., 1957* ''Übertragung und Gegenübertragung : Studien zur psychoanalytischen Technik'', 1959.Translated into English as ''Transference and countertransference'', London: Hogarth Press, 1968.International psycho-analytical library, no. 73.
References
Further reading * '' Transference and Countertransference''; Publisher: Karnac Books, 1968,