ABSTRACT
The initial interpretation of the countertransference as an obstacle to treatment was transformed into a useful and indispensable tool in understanding the patient. In the case, the countertransference will provide useful information regarding the patient's inner world. The intentional exclusion of the countertransference in analytic practice did not eliminate its existence. In the 1950s, after a long period of silence, many scholars began to consider the countertransference as inevitable, even if it did not necessarily have to be communicated to the patient. Countertransference is an instrument of research into the patient's unconscious. Roger Money-Kyrle admits that although the countertransference is useful and beneficial in understanding the patient, it also represents a hindrance. Salomon Resnik prefers to speak of a double transference instead of a countertransference and underlines the dual transmission of messages, hoping the analyst will assume the position of both analyst and patient.
