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Originally Posted by sittingatwatersedge
so - is it a transitory or incidental thing? or once you have a transference experience toward a certain person, it will likely keep on happening?
and if it occurs in therapy, is it to be encouraged, discouraged, passed over, worked with - and if worked with, how?
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My therapist recently told me that therapy is designed to encourage regression and transference, and to make the patient's neuroses come out, front and center.
I think transference can be recurring on the same theme, or it can be a one-time occurence - it really depends on what caused the transference. For instance, I was angry with my T's response to a question, but I really was transferring my anger at my mother's past responses to a situation onto T. So I think that was a one-time deal.