Use Of Countertransference Research Articles

The emancipation of time from autistic encapsulation: a study in the use of countertransference.

The emancipation of time from autistic encapsulation: a study in the use of countertransference.

Close encounters: a relational view of the therapeutic process

The traditional view of the therapeutic interaction fails to capture the heart of the process when it pictures the therapist as disinterested and distanced agent of change. Growing interest in the helpful use of countertransference reflects a shift toward a two-person view of treatment. There has been surprisingly little effort, however, to explore systematically the full potential of such a model for making sense of the therapeutic process. Emphasis on the relational aspect of treatment has too often been derisively equated with the idea that cure occurs through a sophisticated form of parental caring with the role of interpretation being essentially incidental. The fear of being discredited in this way has kept therapists from trying to conceptualize the ways in which a two-person process in fact underlies the patient's and therapist's search for meaning. Contrasts a One-person and a Two-person Analysis of an Initial Interview In Close Encounters, Dr. Robert Winer takes on this quest. He begins by dramatizing the differences through contrasting a one-person and a two-person analysis of an initial interview. Having demonstrated the problem he then reviews the ways in which both American and British authors have introduced relational considerations and shows how the intrapsychic and interpersonal views of man complement each other. Throughout the book, Dr. Winer illustrates his reasoning with clinical accounts in which he offers a frank and vivid description of his own participation. Marriage Can be Usefully Taken as a Metaphor for Therapy Dr. Winer explores the two-person view from a variety of vantage points. He suggests that the implicit model of therapy as a parent-child endeavor can be usefully revised by taking marriage as the metaphor. From another perspective, he suggests that the contemporary interest in narratives makes more sense when the storytelling is conceptualized as a two-person endeavor. Freud's account of his treatment of the Wolf Man is offered as a cautionary tale to illustr

New Uses of Countertransference for the Inpatient Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder*

The author describes the uses of countertransference for the inpatient treatment of borderline personality disorder. Differences from usage in the dyadic outpatient situation are noted. In particular, the countertransference induced in staff may provide a crucial signal function reflecting the patient-ward system. Understanding these feelings provides information not only about the patient's inner world but also about general system features such as the staff's needs, therapeutic capacity and unresolved feelings from previous borderline patients. The signal function may also have diagnostic and treatment implications. A conceptualization of countertransference that encompasses the unique system aspects of inpatient psychiatry is helpful in the care of borderline patients.

Book Review: The Uses of Countertransference

Book Review: The Uses of Countertransference

The Uses of Countertransference

The Uses of Countertransference

A model for the diagnostic and therapeutic use of countertransference

The definitions of countertransference are examined and a new definition is offered. A model is suggested that facilitates exploration of countertransference data.

Gender related themes of women psychotherapists in their treatment of women patients: The creative and reparative use of countertransference as a mutual growth experience

Women in contemporary American society internalize the negative attitudes toward women that have been part of the sociocultural milieu in which they were raised. These attitudes, transmitted during the earliest phases of a woman's development, within the intimate framework of her object relations, are then reinforced by the prevailing culture. Feelings which derive from these attitudes becomes reactivated in a woman psychotherapist's countertransference, leading to a dynamic interplay with her female patient. This study describes countertransference themes experienced by women therapists treating women patients. Its conceptual framework is drawn from psychoanalytic theory, and it is one of the few studies based on in-depth explorations of the feelings and conflicts of the therapists themselves.

Some uses of the Psychoanalyst in the NHS

SUMMARY This paper addresses various training issues of psychotherapy training in mental hospitals. It discusses some particular attitudes about the use of the Psychoanalyst as a Psychotherapist as well as the Institutions' (i.e. psychiatric establishments) desire often for a superficial teaching in Psychotherapy. It describes a training for NHS staff in psychodynamics and in particular in use of the counter-transference from Balint's model of general practitioner training groups. Training groups most usually seen in GP seminars, with their central use of counter-transference by the analyst, can be extended to train medical students, nurses, social workers, etc. It is a form of training that uses the analytic stance rather than something of lesser alloy, and allows the Psychoanalyst to be himself rather than function at the level of a Psychotherapist alone.

Primitive Communication and the Use of Countertransference

Primitive Communication and the Use of Countertransference

The use of countertransference as a way to understand and treat patients

The use of countertransference as a way to understand and treat patients

The Meanings and Uses of Countertransference

The Meanings and Uses of Countertransference