Therapists are often as uncomfortable as their clients are with discussing the fee, and this
reticence can undermine the therapeutic relationship. Increasingly, it is recognized that …

The fee expresses the analyst's desire. Money struggles between patient and analyst offer
an outstanding opportunity for conflicting subjectivities to be revealed and understood …

The issue of money and fees for treatment is one of the most inadequately discussed issues
in the psychotherapy literature. Despite its relevance to every psychotherapy, and its …

metaphor or dream Page 1 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, VOL. 3,
NO. 2, 1998 123 Money and psychotherapy: object, metaphor or dream JEREMY HOLMES …

This paper addresses the real and symbolic significance of fee-paying in the
psychotherapeutic relationship through the context of available (mostly American) literature …

This article argues that increased interpretation of fee material can only be achieved by
tackling the countertransference factors which stop counsellors and psychotherapists from …

Drawing on literature from different psychotherapeutic traditions, the meaning of money is
reviewed, and the psychological and practical issues which arise from the setting, changing …

The therapeutic interaction at whatever level the therapy is geared, whether supportive or
expressive, involves a relationship between patient and therapist in which the therapist's …

The subject of money has generally been overlooked in the psychoanalytic literature, and it
has taken almost a century of psychoanalytic practice for the topic to begin to be openly …

Money is ubiquitous, and individuals' attitudes to money are rife with ambivalence and
dysphoria. Medical training neglects money issues; thus, many physicians remain with …