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Transference and countertransference during psychotherapy

In a therapy context, transference refers to redirection of a patient's feelings for a significant person to the therapist. Transference is often manifested as an erotic attraction towards a therapist, but can be seen in many other forms such as rage, hatred, mistrust, parentification, extreme dependence, or even placing the therapist in a god-like or guru status. When Freud initially encountered transference in his therapy with patients, he felt it was an obstacle to treatment success. But what he learned was that the analysis of the transference was actually the work that needed to be done. The focus in psychodynamic psychotherapy is, in large part, the therapist and patient recognizing the transference relationship and exploring the relationship's meaning. Since the transference between patient and therapist happens on an unconscious level, psychodynamic therapists who are largely concerned with a patient's unconscious material use the transference to reveal unresolved conflicts patients have with childhood figures.

Countertransference is defined as redirection of a therapist's feelings toward a patient, or more generally, as a therapist's emotional entanglement with a patient. A therapist's attunement to their own countertransference is nearly as critical as understanding the transference. Not only does this help the therapist regulate their emotions in the therapeutic relationship, but it also gives the therapist valuable insight into what the patient is attempting to elicit in them. For example, a therapist who is sexually attracted to a patient must understand this as countertransference, and look at how the patient may be eliciting this reaction. Once it has been identified, the therapist can ask the patient what their feelings are toward the therapist, and explore how they relate to unconscious motivations, desires, or fears.

Another contrasting perspective on transference and counter-transference is offered in Classical Adlerian psychotherapy. Rather than using the patient's transference strategically in therapy, the positive or negative transference is diplomatically pointed out and explained as an obstacle to cooperation and improvement. For the therapist, any signs of counter-transference would suggest that his or her own personal training analysis needs to be continued to overcome these tendencies.

If you ask me my opinion, I would say that these are just processes of pure denial of pleasure.
Theories built around the need to avoid any kind of passionate or erotic experiences, in case of mutual availability.
Daqui.

Às vezes ocorre-me cada pensamento!
É que, ser objecto de paixão e não corresponder pode ser muito desconfortável. Conheço esse lugar. Essa ideia da transferência pode dar muito jeito a quem não estiver interessado em fazer de father figure, ou outra coisa qualquer.

As minhas transferências erotizadas sempre duraram muito tempo, mas não sem causar visíveis danos físicos. Ou seriam, antes, as minhas paixões não correspondidas? Eh pá! Agora fiquei na dúvida! :-)