Category: Transference

If the patient is fragile and projecting his will onto the therapist, his anxiety will be discharged in cognitive/perceptual disruption. His other defenses will be regressive, like splitting, weepiness, and externalization. He will lose some of his reality testing, now beginning to fear the therapist’s will and where the therapist is going to “make” him…

It’s so easy to ask the patient about feelings toward parents in the past and spouses in the present. But asking about feelings toward the therapist? When do we do that? In a previous blog I talked about non-verbal signals that tell you when to ask about feelings toward the therapist. Now we’ll talk about…