ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that while the proper processing of the countertransference involves attention to the therapist's feelings and some idea of where in the patient the feelings may have originated, it also involves an anticipation of the way in which the patient is going to be able to hear the interpretation. It presents three examples for countertransference with neurotic, borderline, and psychotic patients. In the first, that of the neurotic girl, Laura, it was important to use and transform the counter transference and to give a lost part of her personality back to her. In the second example, that of the handicapped girl, Angle, it was important at that stage to keep the despair and frustration in oneself. In the third, that of the autistic boy, Robbie, it was important to be far more active, carrying a live feeling self and calling the patient back to himself and to live human contact by means of amplifications and reclamations.
