Relationship and Dream Analysis

Transference, Countertransference and Resistance

The analysis of the therapeutic relationship is central. Transference is the emotional link where the patient projects onto the therapist figures from his past (father, mother) or current roles (savior, all-powerful), granting him affections that do not correspond to him.

Countertransference are the emotions and expectations that the patient awakens in the therapist (desire to take care of him/her, impatience, frustration); the therapist must be able to identify and delimit it in order not to act on it (not to "mobilize").

Finally, Resistance Analysis involves examining why the patient opposes change or treatment at specific times (faults, silences, evasions), understanding this as part of the self-defense process.

Dream Interpretation

In the psychodynamic clinic, the dream is analyzed looking for its hidden meaning.

A distinction is made between the manifest content (what the patient narrates that he dreamt) and the latent content (the underlying unconscious meaning and repressed desires).

The therapist analyzes the symbols and associates the dream with the patient's daily behavior and life to reveal the psychic conflict.

Unlike Gestalt, which dramatizes the dream in the present, here its symbolism and connection to the past and the unconscious are interpreted.

Summary

Transference occurs when the patient projects figures from the past onto the therapist. Countertransference is the emotional response of the prof