Transference and countertransference: two concepts specific to psychoanalytic theory and practice.
The development of the theory of transference and countertransference from Freud to post-Freudian authors is described. It is concluded that the concepts of transference and countertransference are pertinent only within a definite psychoanalytic setting. They cannot be applied in every therapeutic situation.
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Department of Psychiatry, Units for Adolescents and Young Adults, Geneva University Hospitals, 16-18 Bd. Saint-Georges, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland, ladame@cmu.unige.ch.
D003379:Countertransference; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D014167:Transference, Psychology