Is your therapist biased by money?

Earlier this year, blog commenter TK wrote:

“Isn’t this the greatest countertransference, in this age of fee-for-service psychotherapy as opposed to psychotherapist-on-salary: How do I work around my own economic motivation in deciding whether to continue with a patient or terminate?

“In other words, how does one reconcile the consistent economic incentive to keep a client coming [...]

Countertransference, an overview

I attended a very good lecture this week on contemporary views of countertransference.  It inspired me to write a brief overview of the concept here, with more to follow.

To understand countertransference, it helps to tackle transference first.  As I’ve discussed previously, transference was a word coined by Sigmund Freud to label the way patients “transfer” [...]