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countertransference: a standalone construct

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countertransference1 CONSTRUCTCountertransferenceFREUD · 1910

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Psychoanalysis

The analyst's own feelings toward the patient

In psychoanalysis, countertransference is the set of the analyst's responses (feelings, attitudes, and reactions) toward the patient, first framed by Freud as the analyst's own unconscious reaction to the patient's transference and later reconceived as a source of information about the patient. Freud named it in 1910, and from Heimann onward it was treated not merely as interference but as a clinical instrument, as documented in Laplanche and Pontalis's The Language of Psycho-Analysis. The referent is the clinician's reaction within the analytic relationship, used reflectively in treatment rather than quantified.[1]

Unit
The analyst's affective and attitudinal response to the patient
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Not directly measured; monitored through the analyst's self-reflection and supervision

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References

  1. Laplanche, J., & Pontalis, J.-B. (1973). The language of psycho-analysis (D. Nicholson-Smith, Trans.). W. W. Norton. (Original work published 1967) ISBN 9780393011050

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