ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors focus on how positive and negative transferences commonly unfold in the course of treatment. Transference emerges out of the subjective relational stew that is part of the therapeutic process. Working with transference means working in the subjective present because, without doubt, this is where the therapeutic dialogue becomes personal. When the authors apply the Four Quadrant Model to transference, they are able to access feelings of shame most poignantly through palpating transferential material. The videos illustrate how to work with transference from a relational and systemic posture. The first video on transference will give readers an introduction of one supervisee’s thoughts, illustrating how her growing comfort with using the Four Quadrant Model helped her “hear” when the emergence of transferential material began to surface. In the next video, the authors see an example of the patient at an ending point in therapy.
