ABSTRACT
The study of countertransference is a central and vital facet of any psychotherapy process that is aimed at exploring, illuminating, and transforming the subjective world of the patient. Its use remains a fundamental and
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inextricable component of any analytic experience (Maroda, 1991). Like its conceptual counterpart transference, countertransference generally has worked its way into most theoretical disagreements over the last 100 years.
