Cornfield R B, Share I A
Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia.
Psychiatr Clin North Am. 1994 Dec;17(4):851-61.
The emotional pressure and transferences of patients to their physicians and other caregivers are natural, inevitable occurrences that are not restricted to therapeutic situations in which one is using a dynamic approach. Transferences are present in all relationships but are scrutinized in intensive dynamic psychotherapy. This article presents clinical examples that illustrate the intense pressures, often near-psychotic, exerted by certain borderline patients, which are unconsciously targeted to force a specific type of response from the therapist.
