Transference

Therapeutic Communication and Engagement TOPIC: The ability to engage in a communicative process that is therapeutic is dependent on the acquisition of skills and not merely on personal attributes – critically discuss. NAME: STUDENT NUMBER: Declaration: I, SAMUEL AFOLABI, hereby declare that this is my original work and it has not been submitted to any other institution for any reason. _______________________________ ________________…

Transference is the feeling of the counselee transferring with the counselor any feelings that they brought into the counseling session. In transference a man could come into a counseling session due to a bad marriage and his female counselor is assisting him causing him to start having feelings for her due to what he is missing…

In The Personal and the Collective Unconscious, Carl Jung details a variety of encounters with his patients in order to forward his psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious. Jung argues that the unconscious exists as a space of ongoing psychic activity outside of rational will and human agency; the unconscious will inevitably produce symbolic images separate from contingently formulated thoughts and feelings. In synthesizing the messy overlap of polarized symbols present in the personal…

a) The risk treatment methodology that entails the removal of Windows compatibility is risk avoidance. According to Pritchard (2014, p.49), risk avoidance involves manipulating the plan to circumvent the occurrence of a particular risk. As seen in this case, instead of getting extra resources who have more experience with Windows mobile operating systems which could potentially increase the cost and effect the timeline, they have decided to circumvent the risk all together by removing the…

from transference and countertransference. Dr. Wachtel asked Melissa why she was smiling after he presented a question to her. Melissa replied, “I just don’t care. I mean I don’t care that I am waitressing, you know… I am fine with that for now.” It seemed like the response she wanted to give to her parents when they questioned her about her career. Her thoughts and feelings were displaced onto Dr. Wachtel. Because Dr. Wachtel adopted the relational model in therapy, he noticed the transference…

by the therapist, of their validation and self worth through two processes – the mirroring transference and the idealizing transference (McLean). In mirroring transference, the patient is reassured by the therapist of the patient’s validation (Gale). The expression most often used to describe mirroring transference is, “I am perfect and I need you in order to confirm it” (Gale). The idealizing transference deals with the reaction the narcissist has to use narcissistic fusion for feelings such as…

Case Study: Who's Tricking Whom? Main Ethical Issue Gladwell (2005) introduces the concept of sensation transference in his book Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Sensation transference is something that occurs when customers transfer their feelings about a product’s packaging onto the product itself (Rae & Wong, 2004). Sensation transference is largely an unconscious act, we cannot help it, even when we are aware of it. “Our minds perceive fancier packaging contains a more quality…

By analyzing her resistance, making her unconscious motives conscious, and working through transference distortions, Jenny should learn to understand how her old patterns of avoidance, numbing, and denial continue to influence and direct her thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Because many adult survivors of CSA have difficulties entering into and…

At the very beginning of the interview I noticed how much I was looking down to document what Amy was saying. I was so focused on making sure I had documented everything Amy said and I think I lost some meanings by not watching her body language. If I were to put myself in Amy’s position I probably would have felt like I was just there to answer a bunch of assessment questions and the therapist really did not care what I had to say. The empathy was there in my voice, but not in my actions, so…

In order to really gain awareness of this phenomenon, I had to first truly understand what it meant. Greenson (as cited in Cartwright, 2011) stated that transference is, “the experiencing of feelings, drives, attitudes, fantasies, and defenses toward a person in the present, which are inappropriate to the person and are a repetition, a displacement of reactions originating in regard to significant persons of…