Heinrich Racker (1910,

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– 28 January 1961,

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) was a Polish-Argentine

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of Austrian-Jewish origin.R. Horacio Etchegoyen, 'Heinrich Racker (1910-1961)', ''International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis''
Reprinted online
at answers.com. Escaping

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, he fled to

in 1939. Already a doctor in

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

and

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, he became a psychoanalyst, first under the direction of Jeanne Lampl-de Groot, and later working with

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and

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in Argentina. His most important work is a study of the psychoanalytic technique known as

transference Transference () is a phenomenon within psychotherapy in which repetitions of old feelings, attitudes, desires, or fantasies that someone displaces are subconsciously projected onto a here-and-now person. Traditionally, it had solely co ...

and

countertransference Countertransference, in psychotherapy, refers to a therapist's redirection of feelings towards a patient or becoming emotionally entangled with them. This concept is central to the understanding of therapeutic dynamics in psychotherapy. Early ...

, 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', ''

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'' 34:4 (1953), 313–324. * "The meanings and uses of countertransference," ''

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'' 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.

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