Transference and Countertransference Essay

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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 (and there is usually not), they are still two different relationships.
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….....

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Hughes, P. & Kerr, I. (2000). Transference and countertransference in communication between doctor and patient. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 6(1), 57-64. Retrieved from http://apt.rcpsych.org/content/6/1/57.full#SEC7
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