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“ Countertransference” referring to specific aspects of the analytic process (effective functioning, emotional response, empathy); “Countertransference” referring to psychic characteristics/restrictions of the analyst; “Countertransference” referring to the transference-countertransference matrix of interpsychic and/or inter-subjective exchanges, or to the field. Countertransference may be seen as a topic through which different traditions approach each other, making up the “common ground” in psychoanalysis. The authors within a classical Freudian background have come to see that the analyst is inevitably influenced by the patient. Analysts working within the Object relational tradition have begun to view countertransference not only as a result of the patient´s projections and/or displacements (echoing only the patient´s unconscious processes), but also as reflecting the analyst´s tendencies. Today, across the divides of psychoanalytic cultures, theoretical and clinical pluralities, a wide reaching consensus has set in about the emotions of the analyst being influenced by patient and analyst alike, attesting to the rich, multifaceted, essential, human dimension of the analyst at work.
See also: CONTAINMENT: CONTAINER-CONTAINED DRIVES ENACTMENT PROJECTIVE IDENTIFICATION PSYCHOANALYTIC FIELD THEORIES AND CONCEPTS TRANSFORMATION(S)
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