ABSTRACT
This chapter and the one that follows are primarily clinical in orientation with a focus on the experience of the analyst as he or she encounters the patient. However, the evolution of the idea of countertransference evokes the entire history of analysis itself. For I think it is true to say that there has been a move away from a biological, scientistic vision of the psyche to one that accentuates the human and also the imaginal factors. The enormous shifts in attitude to countertransference exemplify these moves.
