countertransferent

adjective

Exhibiting or reflecting countertransference.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectivecountertransferent (not comparable)

alternative counter-transferent

  1. not comparablepsychotherapyExhibiting or reflecting countertransference.

    “[…] You see, old boy, you think I’m sleeping, that I’m counter-transferent, but even when I’m dozing I’m listening, putting the pieces together in the preconscious, creative part of my brain. […]”

    1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994
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    The baseline therapeutic principle for work with erotic feelings is the same as that with the seductive client—the eroticism is an expression or cover of deeper wounds, needs, and patterns of dysfunctional living. This is true, for the most part, not only in the client transference but also in the countertransferent feelings of the counselor.

    1995, Peter Mosgofian, George Ohlschlager, Sexual Misconduct in Counseling and Ministry, Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, Part VI, Chapter 15, p. 270
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