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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 ...
In The Psychology of the Transference, Carl Jung states that within the transference dyad, both participants typically experience a variety of opposites, that in love and in psychological growth, the key to success is the ability to endure the tension of the opposites without abandoning the process, and that this tension allows one to grow and ...
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.
Attention to parallel process first emerged in the nineteen-fifties. The process was termed reflection by Harold Searles in 1955, [1] and two years later T. Hora (1957) first used the actual term parallel process – emphasising that it was rooted in an unconscious identification with the client/patient which could extend to tone of voice and behaviour. [2]
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.
DBT is one of the first therapy models to identify problems between therapist and client in terms of behaviors rather than personality defects. [5] Identifying TIB's to decrease (and identifying therapy enhancing behaviors) takes the place of the terms " transference " and " countertransference ".
VT and countertransference may also co-occur, intensifying each other. [13] Unlike vicarious trauma, countertransference can provide psychotherapists with important information about their clients. Work-related stress is a generic term without a theoretical basis, specific signs and symptoms, contributing factors, or remedies.
The idea of unconscious, and the transference phenomenon, have been widely researched and, it is claimed, validated in the fields of cognitive psychology and social psychology, [194] [full citation needed] though a Freudian interpretation of unconscious mental activity is not held by the majority of cognitive psychologists.