Countertransference refers to

Countertransference refers to

• A. Projection
• B. Countertransference
• C. Transference
• D. Repression

Answer: (B)

Countertransference is the therapist’s emotional response to the client, rooted in the therapist’s own experiences and unresolved issues. This can show up as sudden anger, overprotection, excessive empathy, or attraction, and if not recognized, it may color judgments, interpretations, or decisions in therapy. The key is awareness and managing these reactions through supervision, reflection, and clear boundaries so the client’s needs stay central. Projection is when the client attributes their own feelings to others; transference is the client directing feelings for important people onto the therapist; repression is pushing distressing thoughts out of conscious awareness. These describe different processes, not the therapist’s reactive state toward the client.

Countertransference is the therapist’s emotional response to the client, rooted in the therapist’s own experiences and unresolved issues. This can show up as sudden anger, overprotection, excessive empathy, or attraction, and if not recognized, it may color judgments, interpretations, or decisions in therapy. The key is awareness and managing these reactions through supervision, reflection, and clear boundaries so the client’s needs stay central.

Projection is when the client attributes their own feelings to others; transference is the client directing feelings for important people onto the therapist; repression is pushing distressing thoughts out of conscious awareness. These describe different processes, not the therapist’s reactive state toward the client.