Patient personality and therapist countertransference

Colli, Antonello; Ferri, Martina

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“…Our findings support the view that therapists' emotional reactions to their patients may be an important factor in psychotherapy [10]. Patient characteristics, technique, and therapist reactions interact; therefore, evaluation of anyone of these in isolation from the others may provide an incomplete understanding of their role in relation to outcome.…”

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Therapists' Inadequate Feelings and Long-Term Effect of Transference Work

Dahl

Ulberg²,

Friis³

et al. 2016

Psychother Psychosom

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Therapists' Inadequate Feelings and Long-Term Effect of Transference Work

Dahl

Ulberg²,

Friis³

et al. 2016

Psychother Psychosom

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“…use the term "emotional reaction" interchangeably with "emotional response" and "countertransference") can play a crucial role in psychotherapy, regardless of therapeutic orientation and across different forms of psychopathology (Hayes et al, 2011;Colli and Ferri, 2015).…”

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Eating Disorders and Therapist Emotional Responses

Colli¹,

Speranza

Lingiardi

et al. 2015

Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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The aims of this study were to identify (a) patterns of clinicians' emotional responses to patients with eating disorders (ED); (b) patient, clinician, and treatment variables associated with therapist emotional responses; and (c) the influence of patient personality on therapist emotional responses. A random national sample of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapists (N = 149) was asked to examine one patient (>18 years old) with an ED. Clinicians completed the SWAP-200, the Therapist Response Questionnaire, and the Clinical Questionnaire-Eating Disorder Form to provide general information about themselves, patients, and therapies. Results suggested a therapist pattern of emotional response in relation to different ED diagnosis and indicated meaningful influence of therapist experience and patient variables (such as sexual abuse, dissociative symptoms, and self-harm) on therapist emotional reactions. Finally, regression analysis suggested that therapist responses are more related to patient personality than ED symptoms. This study confirms the importance of patient personality in evoking specific therapists' reactions.

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“…The avoidant PD criteria showed a weak, but not significant, positive correlation with a Confident response. Previous empirical studies have reported that Confident is the most significant response from the group in question (16). However, this result might also reflect that the avoidant patients are a more heterogeneous patient group.…”

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“…One of the benefits of using questionnaires is their quantitative nature; they can be distributed to many therapists, and one can subsequently receive large amounts of experienced feelings that can be used to identify common patterns of feelings (18). The Feeling Word Checklist (FWC) (10,14,15), in various versions, is one of the most used questionnaires for research on CT (16).…”

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Countertransference feelings and personality disorders: A psychometric evaluation of a brief version of the Feeling Word Checklist (FWC-12)

Breivik¹,

Wilberg

Evensen

et al. 2019

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Background The Feeling Word Checklist (FWC) is a self-report questionnaire designed to measure therapists' countertransference (CT) feelings. The primary aim of the study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of a brief version of the Feeling Word Checklist comprising twelve feeling words (FWC-12). The second aim was to validate the factor structure by examining the associations between the FWC-12 factors, patients' personality pathology and therapeutic alliance (TA). MethodsTherapists at 13 different outpatient units within the Norwegian Network of Personality Disorders completed the FWC-12 every 6 months during the course of treating a patient with a personality disorder (PD), over a period of up to 2.5 years. A large sample of patients with personality pathology participated in the study. The data were analysed with exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory (CFA) factor analysis. Internal consistency was estimated using Cronbach's alpha. The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV -Axis II (SCID II) and Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) were used as diagnostic instruments, and patient-rated TA was assessed using the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI-SR). Results Factor analyses revealed three clinically meaningful factors: Inadequate, Idealised and Confident. These factors had acceptable psychometric properties. Most notably, a number of borderline PD criteria correlated positively with the factors Inadequate and Idealised, and negatively with the factor Confident. All the factors correlated significantly with at least one of the WAI-SR subscales.Conclusions The FWC-12 measures three clinically meaningful aspects of therapists' CT feelings. This brief version of the FWC seems satisfactory for use in further research and in clinical contexts.

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Patient personality and therapist countertransference

Cited by 54 publications

References 40 publications

Therapists' Inadequate Feelings and Long-Term Effect of Transference Work

Therapists' Inadequate Feelings and Long-Term Effect of Transference Work

Eating Disorders and Therapist Emotional Responses

Countertransference feelings and personality disorders: A psychometric evaluation of a brief version of the Feeling Word Checklist (FWC-12)

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