Varieties of transference patterns in psychotherapy.

Abstract

This investigation explored the nature of transference of interpersonal patterns in patients' psychotherapy narratives. The relation between interpersonal patterns with significant others in a patient's life and the pattern with the therapist early in treatment was examined. Cluster analysis was used to categorize similar relationships for each of 35 patients. Many patients revealed multiple interpersonal themes in their relationship narratives. Furthermore, these interpersonal themes correlated significantly with the interpersonal pattern extracted from narratives told about the therapist for many of the patients who discussed the therapeutic relationship during therapy. However, the interpersonal pattern evident in the relationship with the therapist was not necessarily the most pervasive pattern exhibited in the narratives about significant others.

Moderators of the effects of transference interpretations in brief dynamic psychotherapy

“…Healthier patients have more circumscribed conflicts, which may not emerge in the relationship with the therapist at all (Connolly et al, 1996). Alternatively, their conflicts may be about rivalry and competition.…”

Therapist affirmation and the process and outcome of psychotherapy: Two sequential analytic studies

“…Regardless, in-session context might be particularly important in individual therapy sessions, where patients often do not display characteristic maladaptive patterns to therapists (Connolly et al, 1996) but rather describe them, and therapists must make in-session decisions about their own behaviors and communications based upon patients' descriptions of their process outside the therapy session as well as their in-session process.…”

Beziehungsmuster und Beziehungskonflikte

“…Die Übereinstimmung von Beziehungsmustern mit dem Therapeuten und "signifikanten Anderen" konnten Connolly et al (1996) mit der QUAINT-Methode (einer methodischen Abwandlung der ZBKT-Methode nach ) und Fried et al (1990Fried et al ( , 1992 mit der ZBKT-Methode an umfangreicheren Stichproben zeigen. Unsere Arbeitsgruppe konnte an einer Stichprobe von 70 Psychotherapiepatientinnen die Ähn-lichkeit der Beziehungsmuster zwischen Vater und Männern und Mutter und Frauen demonstrieren (Albani et al 2001c).…”