Transference & counter transference

Transference and Counter-Transference

Carl Jung

Transference and Counter-Transference

The idea of transference was first thought of by Sigmund Freud . He realized that sometimes when performing therapy with an individual that there were some fantasies that the individual would have about him as the therapist . With transference a person is taking something that has recently happened and blending the ideas with what they know . This basically is saying that the client will be nervous about the therapist and therefore he /she will relate the therapist to someone in his /her life

or past and then therefore the feelings develop based on the fact that the client is projecting their feelings about the other person to the therapist . With counter-transference the therapist is the one projecting past feelings onto a client (Conner 2001 . Quite simply put transference is a simple appearing idea that has to do with the way people understand one another and form relationships with one another (Dombeck 2005

Transference comes from unmet emotional needs , neglect , seductions and other abuses that transpired when you were a child (Conner 2001 In some cases the therapist might actually try to connect with the client through transference but this should only be done by someone who has been trained to do so as it can be helpful in helping the client to see how he /she can be projecting past events into current relationships Transference brings to light the thoughts and motivations of a person Transference can help a therapist to see why...