The second aspect of the therapist's contribution relates to the manner in which he or she understands and deals with the patient's enactments in the treatment process. Attempts to clarify the patient's experience with particular emphasis on the metacommunications about the patient-therapist relationship. Five Relational Dimensions Transference - all patients come to us and attach to us with the hope that we will be different than their original caregivers. They also come to us with the dread that we will not be different that their original caregivers. Symbiotic or Fusional alliance - we all attach at some primitive level, in a manner in which the therapist becomes a part of the client.
Transference is a way to remember.
Transference is a revival in a current object relationship, especially to the analyst, of thought, feeling, and behavior derived from repressed childhood fantasies originating in significant conflictual childhood relationships. Freud wrote very little about countertransference. Countertransference was seen as an obstacle to overcome. This rapport on the deep level comes to the surface in the form of feelings which the analyst notices in response to his patient, in his countertrasnference. This is the most dynamic way in which his patient's voice reaches him.