Countertransference-apathy

Countertransference in court interpreters.

Transference and countertransference are important concepts in the therapist-patient relationship in psychiatry. They are also important elements of the courtroom setting and the court interpreter's verbalizations. Transference and countertransference are defined and illustrated in both the psychotherapeutic setting and the courtroom setting with interpreters. The role of the forensic psychiatr...

Transference and Countertransference

As rapport is an overworked word with counselors, so is transference among psychotherapists. Indeed, the indiscriminate use of these terms has led to their being considered to be, to some extent at least, synonymous. In this indiscriminate use of the term, transference is applied to the total relationship between the therapist and client. This total relationship is, however, sometimes referred ...

Countertransference: the emerging common ground.

In the last decade or so, the understanding of countertransference has become an emerging area of common ground among psychoanalysts of diverse theoretical perspectives. This convergence can be traced to the development of two key concepts--projective identification and countertransference enactment. Projective identification has evolved from a patient's intrapsychic fantasy in Klein's original...

Poststroke apathy.

Trauma and countertransference: development and validity of the Assessment of Countertransference Scale (ACS).

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to investigate the construct validity of the Assessment of Countertransference Scale (ACS) in the context of the trauma care, through the identification of the underlying latent constructs of the measured items and their homogeneity. METHODS ACS assesses 23 feelings of CT in three factors: closeness, rejection and indifference. ACS was applied to 50...