Objective This exploratory study locates countertransference as a pan-theoretical concept,
comprising of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors expressed or experienced by therapists …

Despite the importance of psychotherapists' subjective experiencse working with patients
with mental issues, little is known about the relationship between therapists' emotional …

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is one of the most challenging clinical syndromes to
treat in psychotherapy, especially due to the difficulties of establishing a good enough …

Mentalization, operationalized as reflective functioning (RF), can play a crucial role in the
psychological mechanisms underlying personality functioning. This study aimed to:(a) study …

This study examined clinician emotional responses and therapeutic alliance in
psychotherapy with adolescent patients with specific subtypes of narcissistic personality …

Background Mental health professionals have a pivotal role in suicide prevention. However,
they also often have intense emotional responses, or countertransference, during …

Background Clinician's emotional responses to patients have been recognized as
potentially relating to treatment outcome, however they have received little attention in the …

Psychoanalytic authors have traditionally been skeptical of nomothetic studies, in which
group averages obscure the uniqueness of individual cases. Several relational …

This study examined the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Therapist
Response Questionnaire for Adolescents (TRQ-A), an 86-item clinician-report instrument …

While the construct of countertransference has been established in psychodynamic theory
since its inception, it has received relatively little attention from cognitive-behavioral …