The Transference in Psychotherapy

[Transference and group psychotherapy].

This study examines the concept of transference, focusing on its peculiarities in the group context. The nature of the therapeutic situation and the broad freedom given to patients in order to access the unconscious material at their own pace, within a safe environment and with as little censorship as can be managed, transference gradually takes place. Through displacement, the psychotherapist ...

Varieties of transference patterns in psychotherapy.

This investigation explored the nature of transference of interpersonal patterns in patients' psychotherapy narratives. The relation between interpersonal patterns with significant others in a patient's life and the pattern with the therapist early in treatment was examined. Cluster analysis was used to categorize similar relationships for each of 35 patients. Many patients revealed multiple in...

Transference focused psychotherapy: overview and update.

This paper describes a specific psychoanalytic psychotherapy for patients with severe personality disorders, its technical approach and specific research projects establishing empirical evidence supporting its efficacy. This treatment derives from the findings of the Menninger Foundation Psychotherapy Research project, and applies a model of contemporary psychoanalytic object relations theory a...

Transference patterns in the psychotherapy of personality disorders: empirical investigation.

BACKGROUND The concept of transference has broadened to a recognition that patients often express enduring relational patterns in the therapeutic relationship. AIMS To examine the structure of patient relational patterns in psychotherapy and their relation with DSM-IV personality disorder symptoms. METHOD A random sample of psychologists and psychiatrists (n=181) completed a battery of inst...

Empathy , transference and counter-transference in group analysis and analytic group psychotherapy – its interaction