Transference focused psychotherapy Dealing with transference and countertransference in transference focused psychotherapy

摘要

In The vocabulary of Psychoanalysis Laplanche and Pontails (1967, pp 550 ff.) refer to the previous unspecific use of the term transference in psychoanalysis; however, the authors recognized that there were difficulties to formulate an exact definition "because many authors had stretched the term so far that it described all phenomena, which constitute the relationship of the patient to the analyst aEuro broken vertical bar". This paper gives a basic introduction to the principles of Transference Focused Psychotherapy. The application of the method is examplified in a case report.