July 26th, 2010
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 [...]
March 20th, 2010
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” [...]