Can they see transference?

Do you think that they can tell if you have some transference issues? If you never mention it, do they see it? Do they just know?

What about their own transference issues? If they are having them, will they ever be disclosed?

Peace

They know, because everyone has transference issues. All that really means is that we react to someone now as if they were someone else we have interacted with before. Old patterns and feelings and ways of interacting are brought forward. It tends to get more intense in a therapeutic relationship, but it happens everywhere, all the time. So they know, and they have similar reactions too. You can learn a lot about yourself by recognizing your transference and talking about it. It's okay - you're supposed to have transference issues. It's part of the process.

Transference isn't so much an "issue" as what naturally happens. We have to learn to see it too so we can be aware of it in the rest of our lives. Everyone sometimes gets "reminded" of others in their lives and reacts to the person in front of them with "old" reactions because they remind them of someone in their past. It's not bad or anything, just something one wants to be aware of so one can adjust to responding to the actual person in front of one instead of the old "memory" of a different person.

Yes, they know about transference and that we all have it. They probably take entire courses in this topic in school (Transference 101 ).

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What about their own transference issues? If they are having them, will they ever be disclosed?

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">It depends on your therapist. My T is very transparent, so has shared with me a couple of times when he is having counter-transference, especially when he is having a bit of a struggle with it. (When he is reacting to me not based necessarily on what I have said or done but on some incident or intereaction with another person from his life.) I think it helps him to "name" it and make it overt. I like it too, because it gives me greater insight into his reactions and helps us have greater understanding between us.