ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the nature of countertransference, or the response to transference. It discusses the factors to identify the countertransference. The countertransference, which is hidden from awareness, would actually be the sense of failure, the humiliation, and the longing to be loved. It would also be these feelings that would be aroused in identification with the patient. Roger Money-Kyrle discusses the analyst's identification with the patient. In the context of the analytic treatment, he says that the unconscious child in the patient often treats the analyst as a parent, (transference) and that the analyst's unconscious is then bound to respond by regarding the patient as his child. He elaborates this further by saying that parents, in their parenting of their own children are as much in relationship to the early child aspect of themselves, as they are in relationship to their actual children.
