What Happens If You Fall in Love With Your Therapist?

As Morgan enters a relationship with her ex-therapist in season two of “Nobody Wants This,” we asked a real therapist what ...
Psychology Today

Countertransference and Children With Severe Irritability

In psychotherapeutic treatments, counter-reactions are inevitably evoked within the clinician. As with any other person, the clinician’s experience of the patient is colored by residues from the ...
The Advocate

Alzheimer's: All about transference and ways for caregivers and patients to deal with it

Is transference harmful for Alzheimer’s patients? According to PsycologyToday.com, the concept of transference emerged from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic practice in the 1890s. Freud believed that ...
Psychology Today

Countertransference in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

In our two prior posts, we discussed the importance of understanding the pervasive nature of unconscious mental activity and the importance of understanding how past relationships influence the nature ...