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

Transference is when someone redirects their feelings about one person onto someone else. During a therapy session, it usually refers to a person transferring their feelings about someone else onto ...

In psychotherapeutic treatments, counter-reactions are inevitably evoked within the clinician. As with any other person, the clinician’s experience of the patient is colored by residues from the ...

Practical Points Countertransference can emerge in any physician-patient relationship. Many psychiatrists learn as trainees how to recognize their countertransference and use their instinctual cues as ...

Dr Krishna Athal is a renowned life and executive coach. He is currently the Executive Director of the International Coaching Institute (ICI). He writes and talks about leadership, coaching, strategy, ...

Psychiatrists need to be aware of the types of transference that can take place when they're evaluating patients who belong to the same culture or ethnic group, said Hassan Naqvi, MD, at the American ...

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 ...