ABSTRACT
The concept of counter-transference may be used in many different ways. Freud (1910b) considered that the analyst should take an objective view of the patient and that the feelings that are aroused in him are due to the counter-transference; that is, the transference onto patients of feelings about some objects in the past. I think nowadays it is recognized that the analyst does have feelings about the patient and that indeed those feelings may often be a useful clue about the way the patient is relating to him. It does not of course exclude the kind of counter-transference described by Freud; that is, an interference in the psychoanalytic process by the analyst’s own unrecognized problems.
