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Introduction: In search of the meaning and utility of countertransference by John C. Norcross is a Psychology article available to read on EtoBox.
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What is countertransference? Twenty-five years ago we knew what it was: undesirable and contaminated therapist behavior arising from unresolved personal conflicts. Back then, countertransference was bad-it represented a serious error that would probably interfere with the therapy process and might even disrupt treatment outcome. In this "classical" view of countertransference, it was by definition unconscious, neurotic, and adverse. We were enjoined to avoid and surmount countertransference at all costs. In recent years, the term "countertransference" has been used generically and, at times, indiscriminately. It can refer to any therapist reaction or feeling, desirable or undesirable. The term is inconsistently employed to refer to the therapist's customary ways of behaving with patients, to the therapist's reciprocal reactions to patients' habitual ways of evoking reactions, to the therapist's unique feelings toward a certain patient, or to all three phenomena (Holmqvist & Armelius, 1996). Now, countertransference can be good. It illuminates the client's repetitive, maladaptive interpersonal processes and provides useful material to the therapist. These two constructs of countertr
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- Author
- John C. Norcross
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0021-9762)
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Psychology (Social Sciences)