What Is Counter-Transference?
Counter-transference is a psychoanalytical concept that refers to how a clinician’s feelings toward a client is altered when the client reminds the clinician of someone he or she knows or knew. The clinician or therapist may develop personal feelings, such as attraction or hatred, toward the client due to those associations between the client and the person that the clinician knew or knows. Those feelings, while often discussed in their more negative connotations, can also have a positive impact on the therapy.
