Transference Love and Countertransference Love in Clinical Technique

Manifestations of Transference: Love, Friendship, Rapport

A protracted debate has persisted throughout the history of psychoanalysis concerning transference phenomena and how they resemble or diverge from ordinary relationships outside the analytic situation. Indeed, it is uncertain as to whether the entirety of the analytic relationship is determined by the transference or if “extra-transferential” aspects of the analytic relationship can be said to ...

Transference and Countertransference

As rapport is an overworked word with counselors, so is transference among psychotherapists. Indeed, the indiscriminate use of these terms has led to their being considered to be, to some extent at least, synonymous. In this indiscriminate use of the term, transference is applied to the total relationship between the therapist and client. This total relationship is, however, sometimes referred ...

Observations on Transference-Love : Further Recommendations on the Technique of Psycho-Analysis III.

Transference and countertransference in cognitive behavioral therapy.

BACKGROUND Both patients and psychotherapists can experience strong emotional reactions towards each other in what are termed transference and countertransference within therapy. In the first part of this review, we discuss transference issues. Although not usually part of the obvious language of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), examination of the cognitions related to the therapist, is an i...

Phenomenology of love: The Destructive and Constructive Nature of Love

Love, this eminent humane experience, has been explored not only by writers and poets, but also by philosophers, psychologists and even experimental scientists. This paper aims to discuss a novel aspect in phenomenology of love, as the concept of destructive and constructive nature of love, which is to the best of our knowledge, presented for the first time. The fundamental idea of this paper w...