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A 9 page paper. Freud introduced both concepts in the very early 1900s, first transference on the part of the patient and then, countertransference on the part of the therapist. The write discusses how the terms are used, what they mean and their value or lack thereof in the therapeutic environment. The writer also reports how other terrorists came to use these two terms. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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work circles (Gordon, 2003). Like so many of the concepts introduced by Freud, these two concepts are not well-understood by those outside of the psychoanalytic field (Gordon, 2003). Of the
two terms, transference is by far the easier to understand (Gordon, 2003). Freud discussed transference "as a distorted perception of an individual based on ones past significant relationships" (Gordon, 2003).
Patients could come have feelings of hate or love or even erotic feelings for the therapist but these feelings really were "a repetition of unresolved unconscious conflicts" (Gordon, 2003). While
these feelings could be distracting, Freud believed they were essential for the patients own personal growth (Gordon, 2003). Freud himself said that transferences are "facsimiles of the impulses and fantasies
that are aroused and made conscious during the progress of analysis, but they have a peculiarity, which is that they replace some other person with the person of the physician.
To put it another way: a whole series of psychological experiences are revived, not as belonging to the past, but as applying to the person of the physician at the
present moment." Young goes on to interpret transference as a mistake and the analytic process is based on this mistake" (Young, 1998). The patient attributes characteristics, emotions, attitudes, etc. to
the doctor when they actually are related to someone else. The patient thus transfers feelings toward another person to the doctor. Countertransference, by contrast, is the therapists inappropriate reaction to
or feelings for the patient (Gordon, 2003). Freud believed that countertransference "was based in the therapists own resistance to the treatment and the enactment of personal needs" (Gordon, 2003). It
was the famous Anna O case that led Freud to his perceptions about transference. Josef Breuer, a friend of Freuds, reported one of his interesting cases to Freud - a
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