development of trust in a non-persecutory environment as well as a capacity to own own envious feelings. (p.105, Frosh, 2002) one’s Counter transference A term from psycho therapy used here to describe a process in which we – as educational staff might feel as if we are almost compelled to respond – to a child in a way that is unusual or out of character as if we were – behaving like someone else. For example, I might feel that I want to scream and shout at a child, (although I know that I since this is not how I won’t, treat children). I recall that screaming and shouting would be very much how the birth parent was said to have behaved. From the world of child’s psychotherapy comes the insight that for me to shout at the child would be out the counter-transference’- acting on my response to the feelings ‘acting that the behaviour is stirring up in me, as people from his past acted, child’s and not as myself. (p.295, Bomber, 2007). Like transference, counter transference is an everyday experience augmented in the analytic situation, but perhaps not so very different in kind from things that happen all the time. One way of thinking about it is to consider the feelings one might have in another’s presence. Especially when these feelings seem inexplicably strong for example, excessive – hostility to someone whom one has never met before, or overwhelming tiredness in the presence of someone else there must always be a – suspicion that these feelings derive from own unconscious. If one is a one’s psychoanalyst or psychotherapist and these feelings are experienced in the presence of a patient, the question becomes that of whether they are in some way unconscious responses to that patient. This could be either because the patient reminds the analyst of something unconscious and personal, so producing a kind of transference response in the analyst, or because something very specific about the patient has the analyst ‘got into’ and elicited a set of feelings (thus boredom or anger might be a very specific response to a depression). (Frosh, 2002, p.99) patient’s
development of trust in a non-persecutory environment as well as a capacity to own one’s own envious feelings. (p.105, Frosh, 2002) Counter transference A term from psycho therapy used here to describe a process in which we – as educational staff – might feel as if we are almost compelled to respond to a child in a way that is unusual or out of character – as if we were behaving like someone else. For example, I might feel that I want to scream and shout at a child, (although I know that I won’t, since this is not how I treat children). I recall that screaming and shouting would be very much how the child’s birth parent was said to have behaved. From the world of psychotherapy comes the insight that for me to shout at the child would be ‘acting out the counter-transference’- acting on my response to the feelings that the child’s behaviour is stirring up in me, as people from his past acted, and not as myself. (p.295, Bomber, 2007). Like transference, counter transference is an everyday experience augmented in the analytic situation, but perhaps not so very different in kind from things that happen all the time. One way of thinking about it is to consider the feelings one might have in another’s presence. Especially when these feelings seem inexplicably strong – for example, excessive hostility to someone whom one has never met before, or overwhelming tiredness in the presence of someone else – there must always be a suspicion that these feelings derive from one’s own unconscious. If one is a psychoanalyst or psychotherapist and these feelings are experienced in the presence of a patient, the question becomes that of whether they are in some way unconscious responses to that patient. This could be either because the patient reminds the analyst of something unconscious and personal, so producing a kind of transference response in the analyst, or because something very specific about the patient has ‘got into’ the analyst and elicited a set of feelings (thus boredom or anger might be a very specific response to a patient’s depression). (Frosh, 2002, p.99)