ABSTRACT
The term “transference,” as used by Dora Kalff, refers primarily to the “free and protected space” which is the hallmark of her therapy. In the introduction to her book, she says that she tries through the transference to protect the child’s Self when it is constellated in the therapy (Kalff 1980:29). People who worked with Dora Kalff found that her very presence freed them to be what they truly were and protected them so that they could do whatever they needed to do. This is what the transference meant to her. She was more concerned with the experience of current feelings than she was with the transference of past feelings into the present situation.
