Listening With the Body: An Exploration in the Countertransference
- 5 June 1989
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Psychotherapy
- Vol. 5 (4) , 512-522
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0118.1989.tb01110.x
Abstract
This paper describes a specific but little‐discussed manifestation of the countertransference: namely the spontaneous arousal of physical feelings in the therapist. It considers three questions arising from this phenomenon: (1) Are they meaningless bodily sensations or evidence of unconscious communication from the patient? (2) If the latter, do they have any therapeutic relevance? (3) What sort of psychological mechanism might enable such messages to be transmitted?Keywords
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