coun·ter·trans·fer·ence

(koun′tər-trăns-fûr′əns, -trăns′fər-)

Psychological transference by a psychotherapist in reaction to the emotions, experiences, or problems of a patient undergoing treatment.

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Noun

countertransference - the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction

transference - (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst

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countertransference

n (psych) contratransferencia

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Rob Hale, a member of British Psychoanalytical Society and the former president of the Portman Clinic and Graduate Dean of Tavistock Clinic, which was titled "The Institution as a Case Study-The Impact of Violent and Sexually Perverse Behavior on Countertransference".

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Irrational factors in the clinician, such as countertransference, may also affect medication outcomes.

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She explores the place of sibling relationships in transference and countertransference understandings of both vertical and lateral experiences of object relationships in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Editorial

Beyond the intense transference and countertransference central to all discussions of psychoanalysis and depth-oriented psychotherapy, the relationship involves a spiritual dynamic nicely captured by Moreno (1991), who described Jung's emphasis on the religious dimension of the collective unconscious that was "hidden behind the superficial transference to the doctor" (p.

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Specific strategies for managing racial differences between client and therapist, assumptions of homogeneity, spiritual beliefs and practices, and countertransference, as well as establishing a productive working relationship, are proposed.

Clinical Strategies for Working with Clients of African Descent

Last but not the least are the views of clinicians about various diagnostic circumstances in which our countertransference may be problematic.

Psychiatric Interview of Children and Adolescents

At first, the countertransference was also felt as an issue, as an unconscious resistance in the annalist about getting in touch with the contents exposed by the patient (12).

The care of elderly as a field of inter-subjective relations: ethic reflections

The countertransference and transference of the interviewer towards the women during the interview enables a more profound understanding of the underlying dynamics and constructs of repression, aggression, mourning, and narcissistic defenses.

The fantasmatic and imaginary child of the pregnant woman

As for me, I was particularly sensitive to the fact that Brindusa Orasanu confronted projective identification and countertransference. It is clear for everyone that, for an analyst, it is essential to ask questions about his own psychic functioning.

Projective identification, between phenomenology and metapsychology

One notable difference between music therapy and music psychotherapy is an understanding of how transference and countertransference are pertinent to music psychotherapy practice.

Music therapy implications: the College of Registered Pyschotherapists of Ontario/Les implications de la therapie musicale : l'Ordre des psychotherapeutes autorises de l'Ontario

"They feel the angst from us, and it becomes a countertransference," Dr.

Does stigmatizing of chronic pain begin with clinicians?

Steps you can take include using validation, promoting mentalization, and managing countertransference.

"Difficult" patient? Or does he have a personality disorder?