Is countertransference a valid source of clinical information? Investigating emotional responses to audiotaped psychotherapy sessions
| Autor: | Johannes Zimmermann, Henriette Löffler-Stastka, Guenther Klug, Christian Sell, Dorothea Huber |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male Psychotherapist Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject Emotions Video Recording 050108 psychoanalysis Severity of Illness Index 03 medical and health sciences Interpersonal relationship Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Clinical information Personality Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Countertransference Depression (differential diagnoses) Qualitative Research media_common Depressive Disorder Major Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 05 social sciences Significant part Cognition Variance (accounting) Middle Aged 030227 psychiatry Psychoanalytic Therapy Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Female Health Services Research Pshychiatric Mental Health Psychology Psychotherapy Psychodynamic |
| Zdroj: | Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. 83(4) |
| ISSN: | 1943-2828 |
| Popis: | The study aimed to test whether countertransference reactions contain valid information about the patient. The authors examined whether a significant part of the variance in emotional, cognitive, and motivational responses to recorded therapy sessions is attributable to the patient. Six student raters listened to 605 audiotaped sessions of 81 patients with major depression treated by 19 therapists and indicated their reactions using a modified version of the Countertransference Questionnaire. The relative amount of variance in countertransference reactions due to differences between patients, ranging from 2% to 16%, was significant for most of the countertransference dimensions. Reactions were influenced by type of treatment and severity of depression but not by comorbid personality disorder or interpersonal problems. The relative amount of variance due to differences between raters was large, averaging at 23%. The authors conclude that—albeit having a relatively low “signal-to-noise ratio” in raters without psychotherapy training—countertransference reactions contain valid clinical information. |
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