ABSTRACT
This chapter represents my current understanding of the silent transference in light of my clinical experience and my psychoanalytic heritage of Ferenczi, Klein and Bion. By silent transference, I mean a transference that seemingly is not present in the therapy hour. I use clinical examples from patients who were traumatized at birth by the dual challenges of being born medically compromised and separated immediately from their mothers. They faced death as they were born. The two-fold trauma impacted their internal object relations as well as their external relationships, including their relationship with me and mine with them. It also affected their ability to represent their experiences.
