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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.
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.
For clinicians treating those with a history of trauma it is possible to experience “a priori counter-transference”. [8] A priori counter-transference includes the thoughts, feelings, and prejudices that may arise before meeting with a potential client as a result of knowing that the client has gone through a certain traumatic event. [8]
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.
Dr. Dawn Holford, a specialist in decision-making psychology and the prevention of misinformation, explains why people pick up inaccurate health information, and how to make sure that the info we ...
Diagnostic elaboration of the corresponding self and object representation in the transference, and of their enactment in the transference or countertransference; Integration of the split-off self representations, leading to an integrated sense of self and others which resolves identity diffusion
DBT requires therapists to directly address TIBs as a way to prevent early termination from therapy, to improve the relationship between therapist and client, and to model effective communication. [3] TIBs are the second most important dysfunctional behavior to address according to DBT, just below life-threatening behaviors. [4]