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Neurotic countertransference is more about the therapist's unresolved personal issues, while countertransference proper is a more balanced and clinically useful response. This differentiation has been widely accepted across various psychoanalytic schools, though some, like followers of Jacques Lacan, view countertransference as a form of ...
Once any countertransference aspect has been identified, the therapist can ask the patient what his or her feelings are toward the therapist, and can explore how those feelings relate to unconscious motivations, desires, or fears. Another contrasting perspective on transference and countertransference is offered in classical Adlerian psychotherapy.
More precisely, Jacobs refers to the countertransference enactment, highlighting the implications of the personality characteristics, affective frame, representations and analyst's conflicts for the patient and the interactional behaviour.
This would be a counter-transference, in that the therapist is responding to the client with thoughts and feelings attached to a person in a past relationship. Ideally, the therapeutic relationship will start with a positive transference for the therapy to have a good chance of effecting positive therapeutic change.
Body-centred countertransference involves a psychotherapist's experiencing the physical state of the patient in a clinical context. [1] Also known as somatic countertransference , it can incorporate the therapist's gut feelings, as well as changes to breathing, to heart rate and to tension in muscles.
Paula Heimann (née Klatzko; 2 February 1899 – 22 October 1982) was a German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who established the phenomenon of countertransference as an important tool of psychoanalytic treatment.
Once transference neurosis has developed, it leads to a form of resistance, called "transference resistance".At this point, the analysis of the transference becomes difficult since new obstacles arise in therapy, e.g. the analysand may insist on fulfilling the infantile wishes that emerged in transference, or may refuse to acknowledge that the current experience is, in fact, a reproduction of ...
In similar fashion, the teenager needs to be able to establish the fact of their separate mind to their parents, [6] even if only through a sustained state of cold rejection; [7] and again unresolved adolescent issues can lead to a mechanical counterdependence and unruly assertiveness in later life.