Transference/Countertransference : Psychotherapy Resources

Powerful Ideas for Developing Your Best Therapeutic Self

with Victor Yalom

There’s a powerful tool that you can use to improve client outcomes regardless of therapeutic issue, modality or population. And the best part? You've already got it. It’s you. Victor Yalom shares insights on how to hone your clinical self.

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

with Otto Kernberg

Preeminent psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg doesn’t back down in this series of three diagnostic Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) sessions with a paranoid client struggling with suicidal depression after being left by his girlfriend.

John Bowlby on Attachment and Psychotherapy

with John Bowlby

In this rare 1984 lecture in London, John Bowlby, founder of Attachment Theory, presents his impactful ideas on the role of the early parent-child relationships in development across the lifespan.

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders: An Interview with Otto Kernberg, MD

with Otto Kernberg

In this remarkable video, legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Otto Kernberg manages to distill the essential concepts of his lifetime’s work with personality disorders into a single interview.

Heinz Kohut on Empathy in Psychotherapy

with Heinz Kohut

This rare 1981 video of Heinz Kohut's presentation, given just days before his death, features his powerful reflections on empathy.

Achieving Psychotherapy Effectiveness

with Molyn Leszcz, Clare Pain and Jon Hunter

Regardless of orientation, there are several core therapeutic elements that underscore any successful treatment. Discover what they are, and how to leverage them-- complete with lectures and clinical vignettes.

Building Alliance with Defensive, Angry Clients: Part 2

with Molyn Leszcz

Dive deeper into the basic, yet critical, techniques for successfully treating highly resistant clients that work across the spectrum of approaches and orientations.

Time Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy

with Hanna Levenson

See how psychodynamic principles can be adapted for effective brief, time-limited therapy with a depressed, 74 year-old man.

How Do You Maintain Compassion and Respect for Your Clients?

with Nicole Arzt, LMFT & Jeremy Arzt, LMFT

In an excerpt from their book, For the Love of Therapy, Nicole and Jeremy Arzt guide fellow clinicians in a journey of empathy.

Julie Bindeman on Reproductive Mental Health Care, Dobbs, and Beyond

Reproductive Psychologist, Julie Bindeman offers firsthand advice for clinicians working with women and families during their reproductive journey, especially those impacted by the Dobbs Decision.

Setbacks in Psychotherapy

with David Jobes

Explore how to use therapeutic setbacks as powerful learning opportunities for both clinician and client.

Usha Tummala-Narra on Living Multicultural Competence

Clinician and researcher Usha Tummala-Narra addresses the challenges of not only practicing, but of living multicultural competence.

Working in the Here-and-Now of the Therapeutic Relationship

with Nancy Gunzberg

Working in the here-and-now of the therapeutic relationship requires therapists to be fully engaged, and take risks in revealing themselves. But utilizing the transference and counter-transference makes for rewarding and powerful therapy.

It's Over Now: Termination and Countertransference

with Melissa Groman

A therapist explores the complex feelings that arise when a client terminates abruptly.

Countertransference: How Are We Doing?

with Peter Allen

Self-care, while helpful, is not the royal road to countertransference management.

When the Therapist Loves and Hates

with Chris Peterson

Psychotherapist Chris Peterson makes a strong case for welcoming all of our intense feelings—both loving and hateful—into the therapy process with clients to deepen the therapy relationship and its healing potential.

Confessions of a Student Counsellor

with Andrew Dib

Counselors can most definitely benefit from the age-old adage “Healer, heal thyself!”

Whiteness Matters: Exploring White Privilege, Color Blindness and Racism in Psychotherapy

with Margaret Clausen

Explore White privilege in the psychology profession and the importance of confronting it with education, curiosity & humility.

Jude Austin on Wisdom for Counseling Students and Educators

Counselor educator/clinician Jude Austin offers wisdom and survival tips for both student and teacher from the trenches of graduate school.

When the Therapist Leaves: A Personal Account of an Unusual Termination

with Amy Urdang

A psychotherapist explores client-therapist boundaries and termination issues in a particularly intensive course of therapy.

Countertransference to Sexual and Developmental Trauma in the Psychoanalysis of a Disabled Patient

with Roberta Satow

At the fascinating and complex intersection of polio, psychoanalysis and sexuality, healing begins.

Responding to an Immediate Negative Transference

with Roberta Satow

A psychoanalytic psychotherapist wrestles with her analysand’s challenging negative transference.

How Self-Disclosure of Learning Differences Guides My Clinical Relationships

with Benjamin Meyer

Benjamin Meyer believes that disclosing his struggles with learning differences to clients has strengthened his therapeutic relationships.

Clinical Wisdom: A Psychoanalyst Learns from his Mistakes

with Herbert Rabin

Dr. Rabin shares lessons culled from 40 years of psychotherapy teaching and practice.

How a Missed Therapy Session and Self-Disclosure Led to Therapeutic Gains

with Kevin Naidu

After accidentally missing a session, a therapist uses the here-and-now to repair the ruptured bond with his client and in doing so, opens the door to deeper insight.

Terminally Ill Pediatric Patients and the Grieving Therapist

with Sara Loftin

A pediatric clinician shares the rewards and challenges of working with terminally ill children and their families.

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