Ethnocultural transference and countertransference in psychodynamic psychotherapy in the Netherlands

Authors

  • Wouter Gomperts

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30820/8243.08

Keywords:

psychodynamic psychotherapy, transcultural psychotherapy, migration, transference and countertransference

Abstract

In recent years, members of non-Western ethnic minorities in the Netherlands have increasingly received psychodynamic psychotherapy, up to now usually from native Dutch therapists. All the ordinary mental problems and common components of psychodynamic therapy can then acquire somewhat different contents and significance. This article is on ethnocultural transference and countertransference in the therapeutic relationship between second-generation post-migration patients with a non-Western background and native Dutch therapists.

Author Biography

Wouter Gomperts

Wouter Gomperts Ph. D. is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. He is a training psychoanalyst of the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society and supervisor of the Dutch Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and a training therapist and training supervisor of the Dutch Society for Psychotherapy. In 2017–2019 he teaches psychoanalysis at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Amsterdam. He was assistant professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology at the same university (1979–2016) and member of staff of the Dutch Psychoanalytic Institute (1987–2015). He works in private practice in Amsterdam.

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Published

2018-10-10

How to Cite

Gomperts, W. (2018). Ethnocultural transference and countertransference in psychodynamic psychotherapy in the Netherlands. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 8(2), 46–49. https://doi.org/10.30820/8243.08

Issue

No. 2 (2018): Kulturübergreifende Psychotherapie

Section

Titelthema: Kulturübergreifende Psychotherapie

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