Transference Examples

Transfer

Transference Examples. A client admires you and tells you how much you remind them of their best friend. Transference also includes the patients expectations about how they will behave and feel and what their expectations are from the therapist.

Teaching Psychodynamic Formulation To Psychiatric Trainees Part 2 Teaching Methods Teaching Method
Teaching Psychodynamic Formulation To Psychiatric Trainees Part 2 Teaching Methods Teaching Method

Lets look at some examples of transference and countertransference patterns. Some examples of transference could include where your client may have had painful experiences and finds trusting people difficult and is therefore is mistrustful of you and what you can offer being challenging to work with. A client admires you and tells you how much you remind them of their best friend.

Reactive countertransference arises when the therapist responds to the clients transference distortions as if they were real.

Many of the examples are of changes in word order syntactic transference. For example you meet a new client who reminds you of a former lover. From the cambridge english corpus first the degree of typological distance between two languages makes a difference in the type and extent of convergence and transference that occurs. This reinforces their child role meaning you are encouraging them to stay suspended there.