What does erotic transference feel like?

Erotic transference is a term used to describe the feelings of love and the fantasies of a sexual or sensual nature that a client experiences about their therapist.

Can you get over transference?

Transference won’t get resolved in a single session, but it will respond to the work you do to address it. It can take some time, but a good therapist will help you feel supported while you work through the process.

Is transference real love?

While some people take it for granted that patients fall in love with their therapists, the fact that patients do so with some regularity is astonishing. Of course, therapists call these feelings transference, but the patient often experiences them as genuine feelings of love and longing.

How do I stop countertransference?

The best way to prevent countertransference is for the therapist to first be aware of how common the phenomenon is. Next, it’s essential for the therapist to be mindful of their own feelings and behaviors.

What is sexualized transference?

Sexualized transference refers to transference in which the patient’s fantasies contain elements that are primarily reverential, romantic, intimate, sensual, or sexual. It can be further differentiated into erotic and eroticized transference.

How often do you meet with your therapist for transference therapy?

That intensity is fostered by the fact patient and therapist meet three or more times per week. When patient and therapist discuss the transference treatment is further intensified. The therapist must be fully aware of the power of the patients transference feelings and never allow him or herself to be seduced and act upon those feelings.

How do you work ethically with transference?

Supervision is vital of course, and an understanding of the nature of transference is very important to working ethically with these feelings and retaining a sense of perspective in the work. So how are the feelings worked through? Accepting the feelings just as they are is huge.

How is transference treated in psychoanalysis?

It is only in psychoanalysis or long term psychoanalytic therapy that the transference is discussed in detail and resolved before the patient is ready to leave treatment. One of the major features of psychoanalytic therapy is that it is very intense. That intensity is fostered by the fact patient and therapist meet three or more times per week.