Abstract
SUMMARY Countertransference is the sine qua non of all human relationships. The manner in which the couples therapist deals with countertransferential feelings can have a powerful impact as either a force for healing or a force for destruction. Based on the tenets of Integrity Therapy, this paper offers a philosophical and clinical examination of countertransference in couples therapy. Focusing on the areas of rigid adherence to therapeutic dogma, emotional expression at all costs, negative countertransference and projective identification, teaching unauthentic ways of interacting, and co-therapy issues, this paper explores the ways in which traditional dynamic, humanistic and emotionally centered couple therapies can both therapist and patient into a betrayed of self and of the couple relationship.
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