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countertransferent

countertransferent adjective: exhibiting or reflecting countertransference.

Adjective

countertransferent (not comparable)

  1. (psychotherapy) Exhibiting or reflecting countertransference.
    • “[…] You see, old boy, you think I’m sleeping, that I’m counter-transferent, but even when I’m dozing I’m listening, putting the pieces together in the preconscious, creative part of my brain. […]”1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994
    • The baseline therapeutic principle for work with erotic feelings is the same as that with the seductive client—the eroticism is an expression or cover of deeper wounds, needs, and patterns of dysfunctional living. This is true, for the most part, not only in the client transference but also in the...1995, Peter Mosgofian, George Ohlschlager, Sexual Misconduct in Counseling and Ministry, Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, Part VI, Chapter 15, p. 270

Forms of countertransferent

alternative formcounter-transferent

Questions about countertransferent

What does countertransferent mean?
Countertransferent means exhibiting or reflecting countertransference.
What part of speech is countertransferent?
Countertransferent is an adjective.

Words near countertransferent in the dictionary

  1. countertraditional
  2. countertraditions
  3. countertrafficking
  4. countertransference
  5. countertransferences
  6. countertransferent
  7. countertransferential
  8. countertransferentially
  9. countertransport
  10. countertransported
  11. countertransporter

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