Showing posts with label countertransference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label countertransference. Show all posts
Friday, October 21, 2022

How Psychotherapists Learn to Get Comfortable Talking About Sex

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Considering how common sexual problems are for individuals and people in relationships, it's surprising that most postgraduate psychothe...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

The Erotic Countertransference: The Therapist's Sexual Attraction to the Client

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In an earlier article, Psychotherapy and the Erotic Transference: Falling "In Love" With Your Psychotherapist , I discussed client...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

How Contemporary Psychotherapy Has. Changed - Part 2

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In Part 1  of this topic, I gave a history of the early psychoanalytic views of psychotherapists' reactions to clients (also known as co...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

How Contemporary Psychotherapy Has Changed - Part 1

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In the past, in classical Freudian psychoanalysis, as it was practiced in the United States, psychoanalysts in training were taught to be ne...
Sunday, December 3, 2017

Mutual Enactments Between the Client and the Psychotherapist in Psychotherapy

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In a prior article,  Why Your Psychotherapist Can't Be Your Friend , I began a discussion about the roles of the psychotherapist and cli...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

Should Psychotherapists Be Required to Attend Their Own Personal Therapy?

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Many people are surprised to discover that psychotherapists  aren't required to attend their own personal therapy (as of this writing). ...