I attended a very good lecture last week on contemporary views of countertransference. It inspired me to write a brief overview of the concept here, with more to follow. To understand ...

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 ...

Psychiatrists need to be aware of the types of transference that can take place when they're evaluating patients who belong to the same culture or ethnic group, said Hassan Naqvi, MD, at the American ...

Is transference harmful for Alzheimer’s patients? According to PsycologyToday.com, the concept of transference emerged from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic practice in the 1890s. Freud believed that ...