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POST # 2 GIDEON

 Trigger countertransference is predominant in a scenario where the therapist might be involved in extending effective care to the patient or the person in need of consultation. The psychotherapist's role might be applied to the point in different settings. The patient's narrative under care has been affected by the Countertransference and thereby triggers the therapist by bringing back memories. As a Registered Nurse Case Manager, I can reflect upon certain instances where I had faced trigger countertransference in coordinating care. I had been extending towards ten years old, mentally challenged, and had some problem coping with the dynamic classroom situation. On hearing the student's narrative, I felt that I was walking down the memory lane of my own experience.

            As a child growing up, I have experienced more difficulty dealing with the teachers' changing emotions and feelings. The peers' pressure in succumbing to certain norms embedded within them had been traumatic for me in person. For example, the recollection of these memories and the portrayal of the same through the child's narrative have put me through a more caring mood. The revival of the memories from the experience of trauma had been difficult for me to recollect. The situations had been the same with other instances, and the patient's narrative symbolized the knowledge of the individuals being repressed (Hayes et al., 1998). 

Identifying the Countertransference is marked by its difficulties as the process of remembrance and recollection is challenging and demands the individuals' consolidation. Such understanding thereby needs to come in terms with developing a greater understanding of how such factors affect our lives and can be dealt with to mitigate the impact they have on our lives (Rosenberger & Hayes, 2002).

            The psychoanalytical theory states that Countertransference can be described as a mirror image reflection of the classical transference. As per Freud's view, the therapist's transference is the reflection of the clients' transference.  On the other hand, the Countertransference's automatic reaction evolves due to the conflict of the person resolved in a proper manner (Hayes, 2004). The experience of Countertransference is the fusion of the past and the present. The repressed life with unresolved conflictual factors has been contributing to the understanding of the present. The client's narrative is useful in sending the therapist's conflictual memory unconsciously to the part of the mind and thereby calls them forth (Loewald, 1986). 

References

Hayes, J. A. (2004). The inner world of the psychotherapist: A program of research on 

           Countertransference. Psychotherapy Research, 14(1), 21-36.

Hayes, J. A., McCracken, J. E., McClanahan, M. K., Hill, C. E., Harp, J. S., & Carozzoni, P. (1998). Therapist 

           perspectives on Countertransference: Qualitative data in search of a theory. Journal of 

           Counseling Psychology, 45(4), 468.

Loewald, H. W. (1986). Transference-countertransference. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic 

           Association, 34(2), 275-287.

Rosenberger, E. W., & Hayes, J. A. (2002). Origins, consequences, and management of 

           Countertransference: A case study. Journal of counseling psychology, 49(2), 221.