Psychodynamic Perspectives on Aging and Illness

The issues of transference and countertransference in tele-psychotherapy during COVID-19 outbreak

“…Historically, transference is often a disclosure of early psychoanalysis, which means in a smaller sense, the enthusiastic attitude of understanding a mental health clinician/practioner has in the psychotherapy process that initially offends childhood, but which is unconsciously expressed in the psychotherapy process ( Aggarwal, 2020 ; Greenberg, 2016 ). These incorporate, for example, early childhood-acquired love, desire, abhorrence, and neglect, which are connected within the treatment situation.…”

“…Countertransference in a broader sense is the full subliminal enthusiastic reaction of the individual giving treatment and a mental health clinician/practioner group to the behavior of a client, which incorporates their responses and states of mind coming about from the transference ( Gait and Halewood, 2019 ; Greenberg, 2016 ). That is, in a simpler sense, countertransference is the complementary response of the mental health clinician/practioner, which ought, moreover, which should be explained in a broader sense, including all the enthusiastic responses given by the client ( Aggarwal, 2020 ; McCluskey and O’Toole, 2019 ; Parth et al, 2017 ).…”

Not Just a Pill: Toward a Tailored Antismoking Intervention for Respiratory Diseases

“…In addition, patients with COPD feel ''shame'' and ''social isolation'' because the symptomatology, such as cough and sputum, is unpleasant and not tolerated by other people (Wilson, 2006). Stigma and shame are intimately related and sometimes overlapping: Shame is in fact also present when individuals feel that they have contributed to their disease (Greenberg, 2015). These aspects are particularly important because they have a significant impact on the psychological adaptation to the disease and decrease the probability of quitting (Lehto, 2014).…”