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Freud viewed countertransference, even when he first discovered it (1910d), as connected with the patient’s transference in a dynamic way. It “arises in him [the physician] as a result of the patient’s influence on his unconscious feelings” (Freud 1910d, p. 144). Freud emphasizes that “no psychoanalyst goes further than his own complexes and internal resistances permit” (1910d, p. 145). Thus it is necessary for the analyst to undergo a training analysis in order to be freed of his “blind spots.”
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Thomä, H., Kächele, H. (1987). Countertransference. In: Psychoanalytic Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71430-6_3
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