title: Classification of countertransference for utilization in supervision.
abstract: Supervision of countertransference has been problematic for a number of reasons. Countertransference has had many different meanings and negative affective connotations associated with it. Conflict has existed over whether it is a subject more appropriate to personal therapy than to supervision. The absence of a single consistent conceptual framework to define and clarify these problems has contributed to them. This paper proposes a classification of countertransference into six types of phemonena: concordant identification, complementary identification, interactional reactions, life events, institutional countertransference, and classical countertransference. Examples from supervision of psychiatric residents are used to illustrate the utilization of this classification.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003379:Countertransference; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D007397:Internship, Nonmedical; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000193:education; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education*