Posted by Dinah on November 26, 2003, at 2:43:34
In reply to Countertransference Question, posted by Speaker on November 25, 2003, at 20:52:12
And more generally, countertransference is used to describe a therapist's feelings about a client in general. So the therapist in question couldn't get enough distance from her feelings about her client to be able to help the client effectively.
I'm guessing it happens unfortunately often, and not enough therapists are honest enough with themselves to terminate, instead taking their feelings out inappropriately on the client overtly or covertly. The client should probably consider him/herself lucky.
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