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Originally Posted by Pennster
My therapist doesn't really do transference. He's not a blank slate, is all into authenticity and transparency and genuineness. I am glad of this.
He's also not of the belief that "it's the relationship that heals" - he doesn't think that's enough. My therapy is much more about helping me figure out what I can do to build up my resources to help myself. I like this- it's super straightforward.
I wonder how many therapists are like him? I think some of the newer forms of therapy don't use transference as much.
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I don't think therapists use transference as a tool necessarily. More like a basic belief system. Even if they don't utter the word. It's the primary filter thru which they run client thoughts, feelings, behaviors. When in doubt assume the client is projecting in some way.
Can be a means for subjugation and manipulation. It also adds layers of obfuscating BS on top of normal human interaction, and this can be used to justify the existence of the system, the payment, etc.
Society grants therapists the power to interpret the thoughts and feelings of other people. They can persuade someone in a weaker position that his/her own thoughts and feelings do not mean what they appear to mean. And only the therapist has access to the real meaning. They can also make those thoughts/feelings into a pathology if they choose. To me that is what psychotherapeutic "transference" is mainly about.