Latin and Greek meaning of the word transference

Latin and Greek meaning of the word transference To carry across So there is a sense of movement from one place to another

Transference The child experiencing you “as if” you are a significant person from their life/past

What may be transferred? Enormous range of opinions , ranging from Patterns of behaviour Prototypes of significant relationships/object relation Affects Feelings Emotions UNCONSCIOUS

Counter Transference O Psychoanalytic thinking O The therapists emotional response “as if” he or she was that significant person

Counter Transference O Humanistic thinking O The feelings, images and sensations that arise in therapist.

It may come through… O Perceptions O Emotions O Reactions O Feelings O Sensations O Images

History of Counter Transference O Freud – 1900’s Counter Transference viewed as an ‘obstacle’. Something to be got rid of by further analysis Since 1950’s Counter Transference is seen as important data

Importance of Counter Transference O It enriches our information about a child's emotional world O An awareness of our own Counter Transference helps therapist regulate better his or her own feelings in therapy room

Working with Counter Transference How to work with it? We can be a container, a safe place for it to be explored, concentrated, studied and distilled s

Working with Counter Transference CT OUT OF AWARENESS Not in any awareness in work with child CT IN THERAPISTS AWARENESS anger, boredom, hopelessness, powerlessness

Working with the Counter Transference CT AND THERAPEUTIC THINKING understanding unconscious communications CT AND THERAPEUTIC LINKING empathising with child, making the child aware