What is an example of countertransference?
Countertransference examples: A clinician offers advice versus listening to the client’s experience. A clinician inappropriately discloses personal experiences during the session. A clinician doesn’t have boundaries with a client.
What are signs of countertransference?
Warning Signs of Counter-Transference
- An unreasonable dislike for the client or excessive positive feelings about the client.
- Becoming over-emotional and preoccupied with the client’s case between sessions.
- Dreading the therapy session or feeling uncomfortable during the session.
What is an example of transference?
Transference occurs when a person redirects some of their feelings or desires for another person to an entirely different person. One example of transference is when you observe characteristics of your father in a new boss. You attribute fatherly feelings to this new boss. They can be good or bad feelings.
What are the types of countertransference?
Victor Altshul and I identified three kinds of problematic countransferences. These are the turning away countertransference, activated countertransference, and unconscious enactment.
What causes countertransference?
Countertransference, which occurs when a therapist transfers emotions to a person in therapy, is often a reaction to transference, a phenomenon in which the person in treatment redirects feelings for others onto the therapist.
What is cultural countertransference?
The cultural countertransference is viewed as a matrix of intersecting cognitive and affect-laden beliefs/experiences that exist within the therapist at varying levels of consciousness.
What are the two types of countertransference?
Post-Jungians such as Fordham7 have gone on to distinguish between two types of countertransference: the illusory and the syntonic. The illusory is stirred up in the therapist’s unconscious from unresolved issues and conflicts in her own psyche.
How do I get rid of countertransference?
The factors that help manage countertransference in psychotherapy (but I suggest are as relevant to coaching) are:
- Empathy.
- Self-insight.
- Conceptual ability.
- High therapist self-integration (i.e. the less unresolved inner conflicts the therapist has)
- Low therapist anxiety.
What is cultural transference?
In a literal sense, “cultural transfer” refers to the “cultural mobility of objects” (Stephen Greenblatt): the global flow of commodities, concepts, words, images, persons, animals, money, weapons, drugs etc. Thus, culture itself may be read as transfer (Lutz Musner), as an ongoing negotiation.