Countertransference (Psychology)
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Countertransference reactions to adolescents with eating disorders: relationships to clinician and patient factors.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: Clinical report suggests that therapists have strong and sometimes difficult-to-manage reactions to patients with eating disorders (EDs); however, systematic research is largely absent. The purpose of this study was to explore the ... Read more...

Analysis of the creation of 'emptiness', of 'nothingness', in certain types of psychosis.

30 Jul 2009 Some psychotic patients manage to create nothingness and emptiness thanks to the amount of work their ego accomplishes. That is the paradox we find in schizophrenic patients, their ego is simultaneously weak and powerful. When we analyse how this ... Read more...

Immersion in the surface.

30 Jul 2009 In order to treat patients with a narcissistic structure showing a rigid shell of defence together with a lack of inner differentiation - insufficient subject/object constitution - one has to deal with a split kind of transference. Their compelling ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Countertransference (Psychology)'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Countertransference reactions to adolescents with eating disorders: relationships to clinician and patient factors. 30 Aug 2009
• [Empathy, a just milieu between clinical and daily ethics] 30 Aug 2009
• Analysis of the creation of 'emptiness', of 'nothingness', in certain types of psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Immersion in the surface. 30 Jul 2009
• Privacy and disclosure in psychoanalysis. 30 Jul 2009
• Longing for the disappointing object and dreading its return. 30 Jul 2009
• [Borderline personality disorder and counter-transference] 29 Jun 2009
• Affect education and the development of the interpersonal ego in modern group psychoanalysis. 29 Jun 2009
• Commentary on Sander M. Abend's "Freud, transference, and therapeutic action". 29 Jun 2009
• Comments on Sander M. Abend's "Freud, transference, and therapeutic action". 29 Jun 2009
• Discussion of Sander M. Abend's "Freud, transference, and therapeutic action". 29 Jun 2009
• Payment as perverse defense. 29 Jun 2009
• Partners in thought: a clinical process theory of narrative. 29 Jun 2009
• Mirror neurons and mind: commentary on vivona. 30 May 2009
• Leap carefully from brain to mind--but it can be done: commentary on Vivona. 30 May 2009
• Leaping from brain to mind: a critique of mirror neuron explanations of countertransference. 30 May 2009
• Regression in the countertransference: working with the archetype of the abandoned child. 30 May 2009
• The crossroads of countertransference and attribution theory: reinventing clinical training within an evidence-based treatment world. 30 May 2009
• On boredom: a close encounter with encapsulated parts of the psyche. 30 May 2009
• Looking back, looking forward: a reexamination of Benjamin Wolstein's interlock and the emergence of intersubjectivity. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Countertransference (Psychology)'

Definition: Conscious or unconscious emotional reaction of the therapist to the patient which may interfere with treatment. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.)

Descriptor UI: D003379

Alternative terms: Countertransference (Psychology); Countertransferences (Psychology); Countertransference;

Tree Number: F04.754.720.864.363;

History Note: 1968

Technical Notes: no qualif; DF: COUNTERTRANSFERENCE