NOUN
- the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction
How To Use countertransference In A Sentence
- The author considers why the revenlation of the countertransference as a technique is so important is that it can integrate the two mechanisms of the interpretation and relation interaction.
- The psychoanalytic term for this is countertransference.
- Mann 1973 raised questions about the “interminability” of long-term open-ended treatment and suggested that vaguely defined goals and therapist’s countertransference problems caused inappropriately prolonged therapy. Clinical Work with Adolescents
- A clinical vignette was given, showing how the analyst responds to the patient's transference, discloses his countertransference and the patient's response to the revenlation of the analyst.
- On the part of therapist, lack of empathy, negative countertransference, underestimation of the severity of the patient's problems, and poor technique all have been associated with negative outcome.
- Freudians call this transference and countertransference, of course.
