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The author of this response will be addressing two major questions. The first will be three things that were learned from an article that was preselected for this assignment. The second thing will be a real-world situation or example from the life of the author of this response. In both cases, the central topic will be the same as it is with the article just mentioned and that is the subject of transference and counter-transference. The real-world example can come from a book or movie but it has to be something that the author has seen and is aware of. While not everyone knows what transference or counter-transference is by name, they surely know that they have personally experienced or witnesses the phenomenon to some extent and in some way.Just to get the definition out of the way, transference is when a person transfers feelings or memories from a prior situation to a current one based on the memories or emotions struck within the latter. Of course, this course of action is, as the article states, at least somewhat inappropriate because the situations are presumably independent. While there may be some concrete correlations between one situation and the next...
On the other hand, countertransference is when a therapist has feelings evoked as a result of the transference projections of the client.
One thing the author learned is that there is indeed a real and defined modicum of concern about how therapists and how they cannot allow their failings and feelings to pollute or hinder the therapeutic process. Indeed, the article talks about how even psychitrists and therapists have their own therapy sessions with others as a means to keep themselves in check. Indeed, these people must be keenly aware of their own limitations and biases so that they can truly help people in need or perhaps defer to someone else if there is something that rubs the therapist the wrong way enough to preclude them from being of effective use to the patient. A second thing that was learned by the author is that supervised psychotherapy is a "thing." This can be useful as well. It might be concerning or off-putting to the client but there is more than one way where the person being treated can have their sessions with therapists or psychiatrists reviewed and studied…
The committee noted that therapists do not have well developed and agreed upon ideas of when self-disclosure hinders and when it facilitates analysis. Therapists should have a context for discussing self-disclosure that recognizes disparities in analytical models -- for example those stressing the reparative needs of certain patients for 'new objects' as opposed to those focusing solidly on exploration of the patient's internal existence. The group finally attacked the
Countertransference occurs when a psychotherapist transfers or projects feelings onto a patient. This can be a problem because when it happens the therapist introduces a third party's (his own) emotional state into the life of the patient, who is attempting to understand his own feelings without the insertion of another's to complicate matters. However, it can also be useful according to some researchers who view forms of countertransference as useful,
In a working situation with an elderly client, the care giver may have personal experiences with emotional displays and responses. This could have created psychological damage within the care giver, which is then projected in the form of negative responses. A frustrated elderly client may, for example, be in a constantly bad and hostile mood. A care giver who has experienced this from parents as a child may experience
2022). Conclusion: In the end, it appears that Ms. Kondrot should have called Chuck's parents and asked them to intervene with their troubled son. Why didn't she? Other questions remain. Did Ms. Kondrot experience any of the reactions mentioned in the paragraph above? Did she go through grief, anger or betrayal -- or perhaps self-doubt or inadequacy? Readers are not informed in the Bernstein article. Ms. Kondrot testified at the
transference and transference love, as it is manifest in the psychoanalytic environment. Different therapists have recommended different methods of dealing with this love, which range from simple, knowing transference to idealized transference, and erotic transference. These range from exploring such issues verbally, to the use of surrogates for sex therapy, to sexual involvement with patients. Certain factions within the therapeutic community advocate some or none of these methodologies. Answering his
Transference and Countertransference: Presenting IssuesAs I plan to work with young children, I anticipate different issues with transference and countertransference than a counselor who primarily focuses on working with older adults. However, all counselors should be aware of the phenomenon, how it occurs, and why, and all counselors can face the challenges of dealing with a client unconsciously coping with transference. Quite simply, transference is when a client unconsciously transfers