The Adaptational-Interactional Dimension of Countertransference

Langs, Robert

doi:10.1080/00107530.1978.10745557

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“…In the latter case, the relationship might be "comfortable," but that comfort would be a function of the counselor's agreement with the client's definitions of what should occur. Counselor acceptance of client relationship definition has been labeled impasse (Kell & Mueller, 1966) and countertransference (Langs, 1978;Racker, 1972).…”

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Stages of successful time-limited counseling: An interactional examination.

Tracey

Ray

1984

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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This study focused on the interactional stage differences between successful and unsuccessful time-limited counseling. Six dyads (the three most successful and the three least successful, as rated by client and counselor) were selected for intensive study from a sample pool of 15 dyads representative of timelimited counseling. It was hypothesized that .-successful counseling dyads would have three fairly distinct stages-of high, low, and again high levels of complementarity-and that unsuccessful counseling dyads would not demonstrate this pattern. The sequence of topic-following/topic-initiation responses was used as an index of complementarity and was analyzed using a Markov chain model to test for differences in the sequence of topic responses over time. Moderate support was found for the hypothesized general stage model of high-low-high complementarity. The three successful dyads loosely fit the general pattern, but each showed individual variation in the length of each stage and the abruptness of stage changes. All three unsuccessful dyads had constant levels of complementarity over the course of counseling and thus did not fit the hypothesized model. Implications of this study for counseling theory and research are discussed.

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Section: Middle Stagementioning

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Stages of successful time-limited counseling: An interactional examination.

Tracey

Ray

1984

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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199

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“…thus giving you a curious feeling of triumph"; or, "I think you are finding it very difficult to consider what I have said, as you are, for the moment, excited by the way I have said what I did." Each analyst, that is, must simply be very tuned in to the patient's unconscious response to his intervention, as Langs (1979) has stressed in his writings, and so long as this unconscious reaction or comment is fully analyzed, then the analyst can proceed to elaborate the aim of this disclosed subjective state, should that be necessary.…”

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“…In many many ways, by using language to speak selected subjective states, and by struggling on occasion to find the right words to express my states of mind, I am trying to give to language its meaningful repre sentational potential. What I am concerned with is close to Masud Khan's (1974) concept of interpretation following the "vectors of being and experiencing"; it is related to Bion's (1977) idea of the evolution from Beta to Alpha functioning and thinking; it is rele vant to Langs (1979) typology of transference communications.…”

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Expressive Uses of the Countertransference

Bollas

1983

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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“…Langs (1978b) suggested that these failures are due to the therapist's difficulties in "containing and metabo lizing" projective identifications from the patient, resulting in "therapeutic misalliances" in the treatment process.…”

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