Navigating the Countertransference Experience: A Transtheoretical Specifist Model
João F. Barreto,
Paula Mena Matos
Abstract:The attempt to identify and classify distinct experiences falling under the common designation of countertransference has been labelled the specifist tradition. In this paper, a model describing two dimensions differentiating four components of countertransference experience is proposed. For each experiential component (subjective countertransference, objective countertransference, therapeutic attitude and emerging experience), a brief description based on previous literature from diverse theoretical fields is… Show more
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