Research has shown that the activation and application of a significant-other representation to a new person, or transference, occurs in everyday social perception (S. M. Andersen & A. Baum, 1994; S. M. Andersen & S. W. Cole, 1990). Using a combined idiographic and nomothetic experimental paradigm, two studies examined the role of chronic accessibility of significant-other representations in tr...

Title of Document: APPLICATION OF THE SOCIAL RELATIONS MODEL TO THE CORE CONFLICTUAL RELATIONSHIP THEME IN GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY: EVALUATION OF THE SOCIAL MICROCOSM THEORY Rayna D. Markin, PhD, 2007 Directed By: Interim Dean and Professor, Dennis M. Kivlighan, Jr., Department of Counseling and Personnel Services The group therapy literature is plagued with methodological and statistical pitfalls....

The study of primitive patients, i.e. patients with borderline and narcissistic personality disorders, is utilized to examine the concepts of transference, the real relationship and therapeutic alliance in the treatment of all patients. Self-object transferences are present in the psychoanalytic treatment of primitive as well as neurotic patients. In neurotic patients they form the silent stabl...

Eyewitnesses are known often to falsely identify a familiar but innocent bystander when asked to pick out a perpetrator from a lineup. Such unconscious transference errors have been attributed to either identity confusions at encoding or source retrieval errors. Three experiments contrasted younger and older adults in their susceptibility to such misidentifications. Participants saw photographs...

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...