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Originally Posted by Jessica Hazlitt
I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this our knows what it is called....
If maternal transference is looking to T as a mother figure, what is it when you have maternal caring feelings towards T? Maternal countertransference? But that would suggest maternal transference on Ts part wouldn't it?
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As far as I am aware it doesn't have a name. That doesn't mean it isn't transference though, transference can consist of any feeling at all.
They have only named the most common types of transference, the ones that come up time and time again in therapy. For example, it is very very common for people to want their therapist to hold them and care for them etc. so they gave it a name, maternal transference. Doesn't make your own transference not interesting, or real, or valid though.
I'm pretty sure that countertransference is a word only to describe what the therapist is feeling, in response to your own transference. So technically speaking you couldn't experience countertransference (but at the end of the day, you are both just both 2 human beings in a room and feelings are feelings) .
