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What does countertransference mean?

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  1. (psychotherapy) The transference of a therapist's own unconscious feelings to his or her patient; unconscious or instinctive emotion felt towards the patient.
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In my meeting with Dahlia, I found myself having a private countertransference thought which I certainly did not articulate to her.
We also have a workshop designed on understanding contemporary trends in psychoanalysis, and a paper on speaking honestly about countertransference highlighted by case material.
An ability to work with resistance as well as transference and countertransference issues.
I believe those remarks may be countertransference.
The therapist as a 'bad object': the use of countertransference enactment to facilitate psychoanalytic therapy, chapter 10, by Webster, suggests that therapeutic enactments may facilitate therapy and prevent trauma.
Freudians call this transference and countertransference, of course.

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