{"title":"Melville's \"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street\": The Vicissitudes of Treating a Difficult Patient.","authors":"Jerome S Gans, Robert W Ferrell","doi":"10.1521/pdps.2023.51.2.147","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Taking the liberty of imagining the lawyer in Melville's \"Bartleby, the Scrivener\" as narrator/therapist and Bartleby as patient, this article, written with the therapist/reader in mind, traces the vicissitudes of countertransference and speculates on what constitutes a \"good enough\" therapeutic effort.</p>","PeriodicalId":38518,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Psychiatry","volume":"51 2","pages":"147-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychodynamic Psychiatry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2023.51.2.147","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Psychology","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Taking the liberty of imagining the lawyer in Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" as narrator/therapist and Bartleby as patient, this article, written with the therapist/reader in mind, traces the vicissitudes of countertransference and speculates on what constitutes a "good enough" therapeutic effort.