ABSTRACT
Over the last 30 to 40 years a significant literature around countertransference has built up and countertransference is now widely understood to include all the responses that are aroused within the therapist when working with a particular patient. In other words, the psychotherapist’s disposition to feel certain kinds of ways; to incline towards particular behaviours; to experience certain kinds of wishes in relation to a particular patient are now seen as being as much the nitty gritty of the analysis as the content the patient brings.
