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Originally Posted by here today
My understanding of transference and its role in therapy was different from yours. I viewed transference as something that I was not in control of, something which would therefore be "good" if it showed up in therapy and something that the therapist and I together, as part of the "therapeutic alliance" would learn from, unravel, come to understand, "resolve". . .or something like that.
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I was talking about transference as a tool for manipulation, coercion, control, obfuscation, subjugation... rather than the general phenomenon of transference. And specifically that it can be used to rationalize a failed therapy attachment. If everything is a projection of the client's past, then failed therapy is too, and it only hurts because of past hurts (which of course is utter bullsh*t).
As an aside, I think the term is referenced so obsessively in therapy circles that it doesn't even mean much. The entire therapy system has some sort of OCD tic around this. Everyone is constantly saying transference transference transference.