Holmqvist R
Department of Education and Psychology, Linköping, Sweden.
J Psychother Pract Res. 2001 Spring;10(2):104-16.
The author addressed the question of consistency in psychotherapists' countertransference feelings. Research findings have indicated that the therapist's own personal feeling style may be more important than the patient's impact on the therapist's feelings. In this study, the feelings of 9 psychotherapists toward 28 patients were followed by using checklist self-report after each session during moderately long psychotherapies. ANOVAs and discriminant analyses showed that the therapists were very consistent in their feeling style over different patients and over time. The consistency in feelings toward the individual patients was smaller. Deviations from consistency are analyzed, and their importance for the understanding of different aspects of the countertransference is discussed. It is suggested that a meaningful use of the countertransference concept ought to be based on systematic identifications of recurrent and deviant patterns in the therapist's reactions.
作者探讨了心理治疗师反移情感受的一致性问题。研究结果表明，治疗师自身的个人情感风格可能比患者对治疗师情感的影响更为重要。在本研究中，对9位心理治疗师在较长时间的心理治疗过程中，每次治疗 session 后使用清单自评法追踪他们对28位患者的感受。方差分析和判别分析表明，治疗师在对不同患者以及不同时间的情感风格上非常一致。对个体患者情感的一致性则较小。分析了与一致性的偏差，并讨论了它们对于理解反移情不同方面的重要性。建议对反移情概念的有意义运用应该基于对治疗师反应中反复出现和异常模式的系统识别。
