title: Understanding and differentiating clients' positive feelings in psychotherapy.
abstract: The positive feelings patients experience towards their therapists have important diagnostic and treatment considerations. This article reviews and integrates the literature on the therapeutic alliance, the positive transference, and the idealizing transference. Examples are provided to help clinicians understand and differentiate their patients' positive feelings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta 30303-3083, USA.
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Chance
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Glickauf-Hughes
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D014167:Transference, Psychology