CGA transference, p i TherapeuticSpiral INTERNATIONAL The Dance of Transference & Countertransference ‘TSM Definitions of Terms Chinese Guidance Association September 2005 ‘Transference: Transference is 4 normal developmental phenomenon that facilitates an infant’s ability to construct and intemalize symbolic representations of the parents/caregivers fo develop a stable self-organization. With consistent care, the Infant is able to internalize stable images/representations of self and other that include both good and bad as part of self and other perception. Transference as ati adult is the tendency to overgeneralize in a present relationship elements of people from the past that are not internally stabilized in an attempt to. complete the normal. developmental process of stable self-organization. itis a subjective experience in the individual that is rooted in fantasy and wished for relationships. Therapeutic transference Is the patient's ability to generalize elements of unworked through elements of the past into the therapeutic relationship in order to stabilize self and object relationships. The therapist's clinical goal is to support the patient to discover the conscious connections between his/her present symptoms and feelings and the earlier template of dysfunctional relationships. Freud (1912): “Finally, every internal conflict has to be fought out in the sahere of interpersonal transference in the therapeutic relationship." Gountertransference: Countertransference is the therapist's personal responses toa patient's transferential behavior. it is the inability to hold the emotional projective_identificalions from the patient and use them to help the patient with his/her unworked through trauma patterns. Is the unconscious transference onto a patient of one’s own-unworked through transference issues and unstable object relations. Itis a disturbing and distorting element in treatment. Countertransference 1 needs to be taken to your own therapy and/or supervision and not shared with the patient as it is about your own needs and not useful fo the patient. A nore profit organization working to free the global conuunity from the lasting effects of trauma Phone 1-434-923-8290 @ Fax 1-434-923-8291 e-mail DrKateTSi@aol.com herapeuticSpiral or; P.O. Box 264, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902, USA.CGA transference, p2 Countertransference 2 is a response thal anyone would have to a patient's projective identifications and transferences. ‘rhe therapist can 1) identify his or her response, 2) how it activates bis or her vn history and 3) can contain any acting ret of countertransference toward the patient in this case, the therapist can tretacormunicate to the patient his or her impact on others in the interpersonal reationship so they can mutually work out together new ways of behaviors and rratttne past antecedents are being acted out In the present. tin CT2, the therapist can accurately label the projective identifications that 21° being thrown at him or her, contain therm and aoourately label them back to the patient $0 s/he can Jearn how to moderate emotional relationships better. Tele: A psychological construct first written about by JL Moreno in 4958 (Who Shall Survive?) He describes it as a natural two-way preference and reciprocity between people. Itis derived from the Greek word for distance—tele—and is desorbed as the simplest unit of feeling transmitted from one individual toward gnother. It is accurate and mutual ‘and based on realistic crifiera between ‘two individuals. “There are two types of tele. Psyche-telc relationships are informal relationships based on mutual and accurate personal needs. Soolo-telc relationships are based on mutual common interests in formal role relationships. Tele can be: 1) positive 2) negative 2) ambivalent itis tele when both people accurately read the mutual relationship based on istic elements of the psyche of socio felic ‘aspects of their relationships. Moreno says that we would naturally develop telic relationships except that our tystunctional families teach us to ignore Sr patural preferences and instead transmit transgenerational patterns of Tnworked through transference ang projective identifications onto thelr cingren., In this way, he says, we need to he Oeto discriminate between empathy, ron. ference, countertransference, and tele fo learn healthy interpersonal functioning ‘and repair internal object relations. “A nonprofit organization working to free te global community from the lasting fee of trauma Phone 1-434-923-8290 @ Fax 3-434-923-8291 ‘e-mail DrKateTSI@aol.com cS 'P.O, Box 264, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902, USACGA transference, p3 ‘The Doodah Dance: In TSM, we have-coined the term “doodah” to be auser friendly way to refer to people's trauma patterns and psychopathology as they exist Inthe wore and now. Itallows team members and others to lightly and accurately ine guia response as a “doodah” so that person’can look at themselves hjectively without shame and blame, It also allows the fear f git member to Get get hooked into the doodah dance by not taking the behavior personally. The doodah dance is a term that TSM uses to describes when two people are both aught in trauma pattems and are projecting transference and projective fications onto each other in a dysfunctional way. They are locked into negative pattems with each other and neither can see the other accurately or with empathy. When this happens, we ask each person to retum to their own intrapsychic role stom to took at what transferences and projections are distorting the relationship, Giork through them, and only then return to the interpersonal relationship to sort things out. We do NOT do encounters in TSM as its foo danger for people to engage in interpersonal encounters when then they are caught in their own trauma pattems ftom underdeveloped personality structures. “A non-profit organiztion working to free the global community fom the lasting effécts of trauma Phone 1-434-923-8290 M Fax 1-434-923-8291, e-mail DrKateTSI aw eutieSpiral P.O. Box 264, Charlottesville, Virginie 22902, USA