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Originally Posted by sw628
she also remarked that she has her hands tied behind her back because no matter what happens now, she will always appear as my Mother of origin. T said that it's so frustrating, but it's is the only way for therapy to work.
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Originally Posted by sunrise
Huh? Why is T frustrated? How does she know she will always appear as your Mother of origin? Sounds like she thinks she has your therapy all figured out and is condemning it to only follow one pattern. There's nothing wrong with sometimes casting a T in a mother role, but there's nothing to say it need only and always be that way. Plus, even if you do see her as a mother figure, that can be very therapeutic! I don't see where she is coming from at all on this. She has "hands tied", she is "frustrated," .... bleh.
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T goes to supervisor. Supervisor tries to explain to T about transference (and perhaps countertransference). T has difficulty with it for personal reasons but, awed by supervisor's authority, pretends to understand and comes out of the session still unclear on the concept. T then tries to inflict her (still not very good) understanding of it on sw, presenting (her idea of) transference, not her own confusion, both as an obstacle to therapy and as justification for her continuing to drop the ball. Sw is rightly confused and asks us what we think is going on and what she should do about it.
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Transference has been recognized since Freud's day. Freud even seemed to consider it the the whole basis for psychoanalysis: you can't get at the patient's childhood directly so you
count on them to react to the analyst the same ways they did to their parents, and get them to talk about that. Meanwhile there's also likely to be some countertransference as the analyst reacts to the patient, and analysts need to be prepared to deal with it so it won't get in the way.
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If sw's T doesn't recognize that that's what's going on here, "transference" and "countertransference" both, she must not be playing with a full deck.
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