Features of Somatic Countertransference in a Transactional Analysis Session

Student: Dobritskaia Kseniia

Educational Programme: Counselling Psychology. Personology (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2024

The work is devoted to the topic of bodily countertransference of therapists and answers the questions “What characteristics of the therapist influence the presence, phenomenology and duration of bodily countertransference among therapists?” (For example, work experience or personal therapy, psychotherapeutic modality, personal adaptation of the therapist according to transactional-analytic theory, etc.). And also what are the relationships between therapists’ own, personal attitude towards their corporeality and their professional ability to feel bodily countertransference. A theoretical study of the categories “attitude”, “attitude to corporeality”, “I-bodily” was carried out in the aspect of personological views, the available transactional-analytical materials on the topic “transference and countertransference” were analyzed, and an empirical study was conducted of the characteristics of bodily countertransference in transactional analytical session.

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