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341 publication date:Dec, 2002
A Study of Psychotherapists’ Countertransference
    Author:林淑君 Shu-Chun Lin, 陳秉華 Ping-Haw Chen
Research Article

 The purpose of this study was to explore psychotherapists’ countertransference  (CT) experiences. Four psychotherapists using the psychodynamic approach were interviewed by the individual depth interview method. Each therapist took 5-7.5 hours on average to complete the interview. Five research questions were raised: 1.How to define CT? 2.What were the CT experiences? 3.How to manage CT? 4.What were the impacts of CT on the therapeutic effectiveness and experience of being a therapist? 5.What were the difficulties in managing CT?


The findings were: 1.CT feelings included liking, admiration, pain, regret, fear, inability, guilty, blame, and anger. CT behaviors included complying with the client’s request, emotional involvement, forming a non-therapeutic relationship, and neglecting the client. 2.CT effects on terminating prematurely, blocking effective therapeutic progress, losing objectivity while judging problems, not being able to end the session on time, building tense therapeutic relationship, and blocking the understanding of the client. 3. CT was triggered by clients’ behavior patterns and traits, clients’ past experiences, special events, special issues, the evaluation of the therapeutic progress, therapists’ perception of clients and clients’ transference. 4.CT was originated from therapists’ personality traits, therapists’ narcissistic injury, therapists’ values, therapists’ personal experiences, therapists’ expectation of therapeutic effects and specific issues. 5.CT management contained setting clear therapeutic structures, enhancing self-awareness and self-understanding, self-acceptance, and professional ability, abstinence and receiving supervision.

 

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關鍵詞: countertransference, psychotherapy, psychodynamic approach.


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