Counter transference

The relevance of early life and psychodynamic ideas in transpersonal integrative psychotherapy?

the journey in transpersonal integrative psychotherapy is to seek one’s essence, one’s real self I often wonder if early life experiences are important in shaping adult character and whether unconscious communication such as transference and counter-transference is integral to transpersonal integrative psychotherapy. Perhaps transpersonal integrative psychotherapy presupposes psychoanalysis or, rather, include it as a first

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How big a factor is pre-transference in the therapeutic relationship?

  A lot has been written about transference and counter transference from the therapeutic relationship between counsellor and client. Of course we do not approach people in any walk of life as a blank sheet but rather we ‘transfer’ what we have already learned from the past to the present. However, in psychotherapy it is

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It is intriguing how some patients can invoke certain feelings and not others.

It was good to get back to my psychiatric placement at an NHS Mental Health Trust today and to a ward review meeting. I have been sitting in on clinic sessions at a university hospital with consultant psychiatrists covering new assessments, outpatient follow up appointments as well as team meetings discussing the management of care. It was two weeks

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