 |
| FAQ/Help |
| Calendar |
| Search |
|
catches the flowers
Member Since Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
(SuperPoster!)
4 23.7k hugs
given 
|
Jul 29, 2021 at 04:21 PM
#1
How is transference used in therapy?
Transference in therapy may be unintentional. A patient redirects feelings about a parent, sibling, or spouse onto the therapist. It could also be intentional or provoked. Your therapist may actively work with you to draw out these feelings or conflicts. This way they can better see and understand them. In all cases, a therapist should make the patient aware of when transference is happening. This way you can understand what you’re feeling. Unaddressed transference can be problematic for the patient. It may even prevent them from returning for treatment. This is counterproductive. Here are some of the situations a therapist may intentionally use transference: Transference-focused psychotherapy In a well-established therapy relationship, a patient and a therapist can choose to use transference as a tool of treatment. Your therapist may help you transfer thoughts or feelings about a person onto them. Then your therapist can use that interaction to better understand your thoughts and feelings. Together, you can develop better treatments or behavioral changes. Dynamic psychotherapy This is most often a short-term form of psychotherapy. It relies on the therapist’s ability to quickly define and breakthrough a patient’s problems. If these issues involve feelings or thoughts about another person, the therapist may purposefully try to upset their patient with that information. This type of transference can help the therapist develop more quickly an understanding and begin treatment. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) If you’re open to understanding how your past has shaped your current problems, your therapist my use CBT. CBT ultimately teaches you to understand your old behaviors so you can recreate newer, healthier ones. This process may bring up emotional issues that remain painful. Transference in this situation can happen when the patient finds in the therapist a source of comfort or hostility that heightens some of those feelings. What emotions are involved in transference? Transference involves a wide range of emotions. All of them are valid. Negative emotions of transference include:
What’s the treatment for transference? In cases when the therapist uses transference as part of the therapy process, continuing therapy will help “treat” the transference. The therapist can work with you to end the redirection of emotions and feelings. You’ll work to properly attribute those emotions. In the event transference hurts your ability to talk to your therapist, you may need to see a new therapist. The goal of therapy is that you feel comfortable being open and having an honest dialogue with the mental health expert. If transference stands in the way of that practice, therapy won’t be effective. You may consider seeing a second therapist about the transference. When you feel it’s resolved, you can then return to your initial therapist and continue the work you were doing before transference became problematic. Takeaway Transference is a phenomenon that occurs when people redirect emotions or feelings about one person to an entirely separate individual. This can occur in everyday life. It can also occur in the realm of therapy. Therapists may intentionally use transference to better understand your perspective or problems. It can also be unintended. You may attribute negative or positive feelings to your therapist because of similarities you see in your therapist and someone else in your life. Treatment is possible in both cases. Properly addressing transference can help you and your therapist regain a healthy, productive relationship that’s ultimately beneficial for you __________________ |
|
 Reply With Quote
|
 SlumberKitty
|
 Mystical_Being, SlumberKitty
|
|
Legendary Wise Elder
Member Since Jul 2018
Location: CA
Posts: 27,329
(SuperPoster!)
5 117.7k hugs
given
|
Jul 29, 2021 at 04:24 PM
#2
Thanks @BethRags
__________________ Dum Spiro Spero IC XC NIKA |
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
| *Beth*
|
|
*Beth*
|
My Support Forums is the online community that was originally begun as the Psych Central Forums in 2001. It now runs as an independent self-help support group community for mental health, personality, and psychological issues and is overseen by a group of dedicated, caring volunteers from around the world.
Linear Mode
