The patient's contribution to the therapist's countertransference feelings

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Rolf Holmqvist, B A Armelius

Abstract

Countertransference feelings of psychiatric milieu therapists toward their patients were studied by using a self-report feeling word checklist. The feelings were scored on subscales of feeling states in a circumplex model. By using an analysis of variance model, comparisons between reactions to patients individually and reactions to patients with different personality organizations and with different Health-sickness rating scale scores could be made. A total number of 244 therapists at 21 small treatment homes were studied. It was found that approximately 15% of the therapists' countertransference feeling reactions could be accounted for by recurrent reactions to patients individually. Surprisingly, the personality organization and the Health-sickness rating scale score of the patient accounted for almost no variance in therapists' feelings. The results are discussed, and possible explanations are evaluated.

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Aug 26, 1998·The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease·R Holmqvist
Nov 18, 2006·Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences·Fujika KatsukiToshiyuki Someya
Jun 6, 2003·Psychological Reports·Robert C Schwartz, Heather M Wendling
Jun 5, 2003·Scandinavian Journal of Psychology·Kerstin Armelius, Rolf Holmqvist
Jul 6, 2010·Revista brasileira de psiquiatria : orgão oficial da Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria, Asociación Psiquiátrica de la América Latina·Mariana EizirikLúcia Helena Freitas Ceitlin
Apr 25, 2000·Journal of Clinical Psychology·R Holmqvist, K Armelius
Feb 20, 2016·Assessment·Karin LindqvistAgneta Thorén
Feb 23, 2007·Psychology and Psychotherapy·Rolf Holmqvist, Bengt-Ake Armelius
Nov 2, 2011·Psychotherapy Research : Journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research·Hanne-Sofie Johnsen DahlPer A Høglend
May 17, 2000·Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne De Psychiatrie·R Holmqvist
Jan 17, 2002·Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie·H Faller

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