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Old May 11, 2014, 04:22 AM
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If your therapist is traditionally psychoanalytic then part of the point of the relationship would be to create transference. In psychoanalysis the patient transfers their feelings from past relationships onto the therapist. The therapist uses their experience of this transference to decide how to best help the patient. Transference can also help a patient get the love and nurturing that they didn't get when they were young.

Transference can also simply mean the flow of emotions in the relationship. Is the patient forming an attachment to the T, or are they resisting. A supervisor might simply ask the other T How's the transference, and the T might just say good. Meaning that the relationship is going well.

But not all therapists are terribly educated about transference, and a lot of them don't see it as a central aspect of therapy. It might just be something that happens, but isn't that important. So I doubt that your T is encouraging any particular kind of transference unless she sees it as a major component of the therapy. But the best way to find out would be to ask.
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