Week 2

Question 1

What is transference?

Answer 1

Transference is the repetition of past feelings, emotions or conflicts belonging in earlier relationships and situations, displaced on to the therapist. Involves some form of distortion.

Question 2

What is countertransference?

Answer 2

Countertransference is the transference of the clients own material to the client, both in the clients transference and the non-transferent material presented.

Question 3

List some elements of transference…

Answer 3

Often outside the clients awareness, positive transference can catch you unawares, high intense reactions always a high possibility of transference (differential - empathetic failure), common mistake is replaying old problems (e.g. telling a passive person what to do, expressing disappointment at homework tasks not completed)

Question 4

____ Impact fundamentally on transference

Answer 4

attachment styles

Question 5

what is the totalitarian view of CT?

Answer 5

All feelings that the therapist displaces experiences to the client