I am not quite sure how to pose this question...

Therapy has been a confrontational lately and though I think it has affected my depression and anxiety a bit I can see the purpose of this. I am stubborn and he has taken me to task.

I really am looking forward to feeling better. lol... and I think/hope some new meds will assist...but know alot of this is in reaction to what is happening in that room (about what of course is the status of my world and changes needed.) At this juncture I seem focused on the relationship with my pdoc.... with all the other stuff whirling about.

I went through a phase of transference a year or so that worked out alot of anger at my dad. This current thing has tended to hurt me....and has lasted for longer than anything has in years.

Now... I was trying to read up on negative transference where my source said that sometimes anger expressed at the T can be an effective means of therapy. That would...I assume... be a positive ? transference if it is functional. I wonder sometime how one can tell when something is a negative transference and what someone might tell me of that.

What is seen to be a good means of therapy and change facilitation and what is dysfunctional?