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countertransference

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Psychological transference by a psychotherapist in reaction to the emotions, experiences, or problems of a patient undergoing treatment.

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  • noun psychotherapy The transference of a therapist's own unconscious feelings to his or her patient; unconscious or instinctive emotion felt towards the patient.

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  • noun the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction

Etymologies

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From counter- + transference.

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Examples

  • The feelings summoned up in the therapist by the patient are called countertransference.

    Shrink Dreams WAYNE A. MYERS 1992

  • The feelings summoned up in the therapist by the patient are called countertransference.

    Shrink Dreams WAYNE A. MYERS 1992

  • The feelings summoned up in the therapist by the patient are called countertransference.

    Shrink Dreams WAYNE A. MYERS 1992

  • Freud used the term countertransference to refer to the therapist's emotional responses to a patient during psychotherapy.

    Gary W. Small, M.D.: Falling in Love With Your Psychiatrist M.D. Gary W. Small 2010

  • Freud used the term countertransference to refer to the therapist's emotional responses to a patient during psychotherapy.

    Gary W. Small, M.D.: Falling in Love With Your Psychiatrist M.D. Gary W. Small 2010

  • Being aware of the reason for the countertransference was a major step forward.

    Shrink Dreams WAYNE A. MYERS 1992

  • Being aware of the reason for the countertransference was a major step forward.

    Shrink Dreams WAYNE A. MYERS 1992

  • Being aware of the reason for the countertransference was a major step forward.

    Shrink Dreams WAYNE A. MYERS 1992

  • An effective therapist has the capacity for empathy and will experience countertransference feelings, but should not allow them to interfere with the therapy.

    Gary W. Small, M.D.: Falling in Love With Your Psychiatrist M.D. Gary W. Small 2010

  • In fact, for psychiatrists who maintain perspective on these reactions and their distortions, countertransference offers an important opportunity to explore the patient's inner emotional world.

    Gary W. Small, M.D.: Falling in Love With Your Psychiatrist M.D. Gary W. Small 2010

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