The meaning of transference and counter transference in daily life and in psychotherapy
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The aim of the work to hand is to demonstrate how helpful the concepts of transference and counter-transference are for understanding complex relationship situations- in daily life and in psychotherapy. Transference links the past with the present and makes the influence of earlier conflicts and traumata on our daily lives, understandable. On the basis of various examples, (a conflict situation between teacher and pupil, father transference in the classroom, a marital crisis and direct trauma transference in the form of a suicide threat directed towards the therapist) shows which role the recognition of counter-transference plays in the resolution of these conflict situations. Trauma transference shows clearly that the split-off, dissociated inner scenes repeatedly threaten to break into actual life in the sense of an urge towards the further development of frozen affects and inner images.
Keywords: Transference, counter-transference, trauma transference, dissociation, production of earlier scenes, drive to further development
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