Transference And Countertransference

Front 1

Transference vs. Countertransference

Back 1

Way CLIENT interacts and views THERAPIST
vs. Way THERAPIST acts towards CLIENT(therapist cannot let feelings interfere with client)

Front 2

Therapeutic Relationship

Back 2

Real Relationship, Working alliance, Transference

Front 3

Real Relationship

Back 3

Real rxns between Patient and Therapist... T is 30 minutes late, P is mad

Front 4

Working Alliance

Back 4

Special rules that surround a therapeutic encounter- talk about appropriate things, ex. weather, skiing, without divulging too much info

Front 5

Transference

Back 5

Behaviors and attitudes of P towards T... P sees T as someone from past, and puts e motions onto T, can be real or imagined... P displaces feelings onto T, overly emotional rxn to some thing(ex storming out)

Front 6

Intensity

Back 6

Strength of rexn with congruence of event... P rxn is inappropriate or irrational

Front 7

Tenacity

Back 7

Clients feelings persist despite T's behavior, goes on and on

Front 8

Ambivalence

Back 8

Pos and neg feelings shift back and forth towards T

Front 9

TYPES OF TRANSFERENCE

Back 9

Specific vs. General

Front 10

Specific

Back 10

P sees T as a specific individual from their past... english professor from college

Front 11

General

Back 11

P sees T as a father figure, more general

Front 12

Projecting Positive vs. Negative

Back 12

Positive projects positive feelings, negative projects negative feelings onto T

Front 13

Two Types of Negative

Back 13

1. P is hostile or mistrustful towards T
2. When P realizes T wont do what they want them to, they realize that T is not perfect

Front 14

Ways to work with Transference

Back 14

Ignore positive and work on negative transference, negative transference can cause someone to drop out of therapy

Front 15

Signs of Transference

Back 15

Client idolizes Therapist, P is unable to accept boundaries between T and P, Anger transfered, P falls in love with T

Front 16

Termination

Back 16

If transference gets bad, termination is necessary

Front 17

How Transference develops

Back 17

-P attributes facts onto T
- T is mysterious and P wants to learn more about them
-P becomes dependent on P, easy to make the leap from therapist to parent figure (authority figure)
-P discusses early emotional experiences
- T is very permisive and encouraging, warm and empathetic, allows P to feel vulnerable
-P becomes dependant on T bc they rely on them for support, sensitive to any form of rejection

Front 18

Using Transference

Back 18

-provides an in the moment idea of feeling
-power of immediacy
- point it out as it's happening
-usually happens in therapy no matter what, not always addressed

Front 19

COUNTERTRANSFERENCE

Back 19

rxn to transference of a client, the rxn of client
ex. P likes T, T becomes uncomfortable and treats P differently
-T displaces feelings onto P

Front 20

Crisis driven Countertransference

Back 20

Relating to clients situation with wrong emotions... T is going through divorce also * BE AWARE OF THIS
-Whenever therapy becomes about T in anyway

Front 21

YOLOM

Back 21

Existential therapist, "Here and Now", Strike while the Iron is Cold

Front 22

'Strike while the iron is cold'

Back 22

When the client is involved in a deep feeling, when defensiveness deminishes or when the person does the opposite of what was previously done