Psychodynamic Techniques: Working with Emotion in the Therapeutic Relationship

About Karen J. Maroda

Karen J. Maroda PhD ABPP is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin and is in private practice in Milwaukee Wisconsin. She is the past ethics chair and a board member of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association and past president of Division 39's Section III Women Gender and Psychoanalysis. The author of two previous books The Power of Countertransference and Seduction Surrender and Transformation Dr. Maroda has also published numerous journal articles book chapters and book reviews. She lectures nationally and internationally on a variety of aspects of the therapeutic process including the place of affect self-disclosure countertransference legitimate authority and the need for clinical guidelines. Dr. Maroda is on the editorial board of two major journals Psychoanalytic Psychology and the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy and is corresponding editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis; she actively encourages her colleagues to write and talk about what they actually do as therapists.