1. Idealizing transference: the need to connect with a protected by someone good, strong and wise, someone he can trust, idealize, and hope to emulate. 2. Mirror Transference: The need to be noticed, accepted and affirmed in his strengths, ambitions, and creativity. He needs someone to admire and smile, to back up his dreams and plans.
3. Alter ego Transference: The need to feel alike between client and therapist. “Being Alike” is an important kind of belonging; it counters feelings of being alone and alien in the world.
4. Merger Transference: the need to be attuned with therapist. Any difference is perceived as a threat
5. Adversarial Transference: The need to be given space to test someone and see if they will continue to be supportive, responsive and affirming of the client’s self.
6. Self-delineating transference: The need for the therapist to help understand their experience until the client can have a durable sense of being present as a valid, feeling, experiencing self in his own right
Where do you find yourself in this list?
3 comments:
hey jere
i think in a counseling setting i would be a little of the Mirror and the Adversarial Transference. but you probably already new that about me...you know me too well:>
sara downs
baby bird transference: being grossed out by the sight of 3 nasty little needy baby birds squalling in my face
i think this may be related to my i-never-want-kids transference
I think I have the same transference
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