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- Title
NEGATIVE COUNTER-TRANSFERENCE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY OF PERSONALITY DISORDER.
- Authors
DAVIDSON, DEREK
- Abstract
A case is described with severely disabling schizoid-spectrum personality disorder, which repeatedly induced intense impatience, anger, fear, and loathing in the therapist, over many years. Over time the therapist suspected that these negative feelings were projections from the patient of unconscious feelings, which the patient experienced about his severely disturbed self, as well as about the many persons in his life who had abused him. The ability of the therapist to control these negative counter-transferential feelings, displaying only rarely impatient annoyance, enabled the patient to develop a sense of trust and safety and of being understood, and to begin to recognize his long-repressed anger and fear, and to act upon his long-felt but disowned need for close human relationships. Although not an analytic case, it is presented as an illustration of the importance of controlling and understanding significant negative counter-transference in all psychotherapeutic settings.
- Subjects
COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (Psychology); PSYCHOTHERAPIST-patient relations; SCHIZOID personality; EMOTIONS; ANGER; FEAR
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis / Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse, 2009, Vol 17, Issue 1, p62
- ISSN
1195-3330
- Publication type
Article