Posted by Dinah on January 13, 2004, at 20:10:39
In reply to Where does working through get you????, posted by crushedout on January 13, 2004, at 19:39:00
Well, you feel a heck of a lot better once it's no longer an issue for you.
I think the idea may be that if you customarily interact with people in a certain way and you learn to act with your therapist a different way, it'll extend to your other relationships as well. But I don't know. There are so many definitions of transference and ideas about what to do with it that I can't say for sure.
Have you read any of the books on using the erotic transference in therapy? I know there is at least one devoted to the subject. I haven't read it though. And hundreds on using transference in general. I've read at least a portion of those, but the answers are different enough that I don't know I could give you a straight answer.
I'm currently leaning towards attachment theory. So there would be some sort of corrective emotional experience I think?
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