A queer Muslim client sat in my office describing the strange ache of watching the news. They had spent the week scrolling through images from Gaza: children pulled from rubble, families searching ...

Objectives: The primary objective of this study was to assess the relationship between countertransference (CT) and therapeutic alliance (TA) during the early stages of psychodynamic psychotherapy. A ...

Layers of education, professional training, and social convention run through the therapist-client bond, but it’s still ultimately a human relationship. It’s impossible for either person to fully ...

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 ...

The effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents (PPCA) has been increasingly demonstrated by a growing number of meta-analyses. However, very little is still known about ...

Over the past few decades, psychotherapy research was dominated by testing the efficacy of “brand name” therapeutic techniques and models. Another line of research however, suggests that common ...

In psychotherapeutic treatments, counter-reactions are inevitably evoked within the clinician. As with any other person, the clinician’s experience of the patient is colored by residues from the ...

I was married to my husband for 35 years when he left me for his therapist. My eldest daughter was so shocked and hurt by this that she called the woman at her work to ask her how she could do this to ...

Ever wonder if your therapist has a therapist? It’s a good question. After all, therapists spend their working days in the company of people wrestling with significant life challenges and conditions ...

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 ...

Transference has been defined as 'the client's experience of the therapist that is shaped by his or her own psychological structures and past', often involving 'displacement onto the therapist, of ...