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 your father in a new boss. You attribute fatherly feelings to this new boss. They can be good or bad feelings.
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 their therapist. Countertransference is when a therapist transfers feelings onto the patient.
An obvious sign of transference is when a client directs emotions at the therapist. For example, if a client cries and accuses the therapist of hurting their feelings for asking a probing question, it may be a sign that a parent hurt the client regarding a similar question/topic in the past.
For example, transference in therapy happens when a patient attaches anger, hostility, love, adoration, or a host of other possible feelings onto their therapist or doctor. Therapists know this can happen.
Transference-focused psychotherapy most often takes place twice weekly. Treatment lasts between one and three years.
Transference is often (though not always) the culprit when you feel triggered, emotionally hurt, or misunderstood in a therapy session. One tell-tale sign of transference is when your feelings or reactions seem bigger than they should be. You don't just feel frustrated, you feel enraged.
When a client falls in love with a therapist it is likely to be 'transference': the predisposition we all have to transfer onto people in the present experiences and related emotions and unmet longings associated with people from our past.
All well trained therapists are aware of transference and countertransference and should be comfortable bringing the dynamics up, when they sense that there is some form of transference happening.
To end a transference pattern, one can try to actively separate the person from the template by looking for differences. Transference reactions usually point to a deeper issue or unfinished business from the past.
This kind of post-trauma reaction is called traumatic transference, an unconscious dynamic that happens when someone has been traumatized and is later in a situation that reminds him or her of that trauma.
Transference is the phenomenon in which an individual projects emotions or expectations onto another person, especially their therapist. This often happens unconsciously and may be overlooked unless it interferes with therapeutic progress.
Just like the other forms of transference, the negative transference is usually an unconscious projection of negative feelings that the client "transfers" from early childhood relationships onto the psychotherapist (see my article: Discovering the Unconscious Emotions At the Root of Your Current Problems).
It's important to remember that transference is often subconscious or unconscious – making it difficult to spot and address. Transference is particularly likely to occur when we face any form of perceived power imbalance in a relationship.
This psychic energy is attached to a person, object, or body. The release of this charge of energy creates a feeling of pleasure, whereas, a successful translation brings with it “unpleasure.” Repression and transference are defense mechanisms used to cope with the unconscious unpleasure.
Narcissistic transference is viewed as a process of emotional flux, in which soundings are taken at intervals in order to study the changes that the transference undergoes during treatment. In narcissistic transference, the patient experiences the analyst as a presence psychologically intertwined with his or her self.
Transference is a common occurrence among humans, and it may often occur in therapy, but it does not necessarily imply a mental health condition. Transference can also occur in various situations outside of therapy and may form the basis for certain relationship patterns in everyday life.
Negative transference is the psychoanalytic term for the transference of negative and hostile feelings, rather than positive ones, onto a therapist (or other emotional object).
Delusions in the transference are delusions that occur during a course of therapy in the context of the patient-therapist relationship. The "usual," nondelusional, transference, by virtue of its illusionary properties, is amenable to reality testing.
The term psychotic transference describes the intense and primitive feelings experienced by some patients during analytic sessions; such experiences occur during periods marked by a deep regression, and they are totally real to the patient, which is why a number of authors speak in this connection of delusional or ...
We mapped a set of four transference themes that are most representative of depression: (1) a strong wish to feel happy guides interactions, (2) the perception that others dislike one is typical, (3) one's own reactions of disliking others are apparent, and (4) one experiences feelings of helplessness.
Somatic countertransference has been defined as the bodily felt responses and reactions that occur in the therapist during the therapeutic process in response to bodily felt sensations of the client (Bernstein, 1984; Pallaro, 2007).