Talk:Transference
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in understanding the goal of the analytic group is to work toward adequate social adjustment, structuring one's personality, uncovering early experiences or achieving appropriate feelings in the here and now.
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[edit] Opposites
Regarding Jung's theories, could someone please clarify what the 'opposites' in question actually are, or if this is not applicable, at least what they involve? I was left feeling like it needed a little more explanation. Prometheus912 13:01, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] AMT sentence
"There is, however, an experimental new theory of transference known as AMT (Abusive Multiple Transference), put forth by David W. Bernstein, in which the abuser not only transfers negative feelings directed towards their abuser to the victim, but also transfers the power and dominance of their own abuser to themselves."
I don't get this. Who is transfering what where? --Gbleem 02:01, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] AMT
Should read "...in which an abused subject transfers negative feelings about their abuser to a new victim, and also transfers the power and dominance of their own abuser to themselves." The article appears to abruptly jump into a disturbingly pathological version of transference, deemphasizing its commonality and even therapeutic value.
One paragraph about love and psychological growth leads into a large paragraph about serial killers. I think this article needs some counseling.
i edited this part to change proceeding to succeeding. Transfer of power to to proceeding abusers seems to be backwards. but now im pretty unhappy with the structure of the paragraph. someone please correct this. ta 125.63.130.114
[edit] Cybertransference
This section does not make much sense and indeed does not seem very serious in tone to me: I wonder if it should be removed? Rgas 15:49, 9 November 2006 (UTC)rgas
[edit] Quoting Masson on transference and countertransference
- As I saw my first patient, I began to discover something far more sinister than the transference. It is called the countertransference. All it means is that the analyst has just about as many feelings for the patient as the patient has for the analyst, only the analyst is not obliged to give voice to them, either to the patient or to himself. For example, I didn't particularly like this patient. She was attractive, and I could have had sexual feelings for her, no doubt, but she was not the kind of person I would have wanted to spend any time with. I was getting worried about this. And so I consulted a senior analyst for a supervisory session. I explained the problem. He told me this was the countertransference. "But why?", I asked. "Why isn't it that I just don't like her?" He explained to me that in the sacred space of the analytic room, "The analyst does not have normal feelings. Look, Jeff, it's not just that you don't like her, the way you would not like somebody on the street. You are an analyst. You cannot afford such simple feelings. Besides, if that were all there were to it, you would not feel yourself sexually attracted to her." Now it was my turn to set him straight. "Wrong, that is part of my problem. An old problem. I'm all to often attracted to women with whom I have nothing in common. This is just more of the same."
- "Well, then, Jeff, you are incompletely analyzed. You have never overcome this problem, and that is why it is surfacing now."
"Fair enough, but let's at least not blame her. By calling it my countertransference, it makes it sound as if she did something to create this problem in me. She did nothing. Except she's there. It's my problem, one I've always had, and maybe always will."
- "Well, maybe you shouldn't analyze anybody then."
"Yes, I've been thinking the same. But tell me, don't you have problems of your own, that also surface in your sessions with patients, or did you analyze them away?" "Of course I do. That is why I have followed Freud's suggestion, which most analysts take in jest, that one should be reanalyzed every five years."
- "Analysis is your whole life, then?"
"That's right."
In case this should be violation of copyright and therefore being deleted, I'll tell you where I have taken from: Final Analysis, The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst (pages 147, 148) , by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, 1990, ISBN 0-201-52368-X
Austerlitz —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.72.11.58 (talk) 17:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC).
