Transference and Countertransference 2

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TRANSFERENCE ANDCOUNTERTRANSFERENCE


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Transference is a unique

relationship between a client and

a therapist.


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The clientprojectsfeeling fromsignificant people in their lives

on to the therapist causing the

client tobehave toward the

therapist as if he was the

significant other person.


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The term transference denotes a

shift onto another personoffeelings, desires, and modes of

relating formerly organized or

experienced in connection with

persons in the subject's past

whom the subject was highlyinvested in.


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Freud described two forms oftransference, negative and

positive.


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Transference impliesmaintenance of a particular

relational form and fidelity to a

past relationship that has been

preserved in the unconscious.


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Transference is a primary tool

used by psychoanalysts to better

understand the inner workings ofa clients mind


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It allows the therapist to betterunderstand the relationship

dynamics between the client and

significant othersin the clients

present and past .


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The transference relationship is

an inevitable necessity, Freudargued. Psychoanalysis does not

create it. It brings it to light so

that it can be combated at the

appropriate time.


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A subject incapable of any kind

of transference is unsusceptibleto treatment by analysis.


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The therapist uses it as a

therapeutic tool to allow the

client to explore and resolveissues with significant people

through an as if relationship.


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It allows the client to work

through problems in a safe place

with out the fear of damaging the

relationship with the real person

in their life.


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The part of the patient's

emotional life which he can no

longer recall to memory is re-

experienced by him in hisrelation to the physician.


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The transference thus creates an

intermediate region between

illness and real life through

which the transition from the oneto the other is made.


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The new condition has taken overall the features of the illness; but

it represents an artificial illness

which is at every point accessible

to our intervention.


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In its full meaning, transference

is what is observed in the course

of the treatment and what

constitutes an essentialprecondition of the effectiveness

of treatment.


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It has to be dissolved before

treatment ends so that the patient

can reassert his or her

independence and resume anadult role. Dissolution proves

difficult in some cases.


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In this case it is the therapist who

experiences distorted

displacement directed towards

the client.


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When this occurs it can have both

positive and negative effect,


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If the analyst is aware of the

effects it has on them it may aid

in the understanding of otherssimilar reactions to the client.


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By 'counter-transference' is

meant the transfer by the

therapist of feelings derived from

his past into his relationship withthe patient: such feelings have to

be recognized and overcome.

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