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Therapists' projection: the effects of therapists' relationship themes on their formulation of clients' relationship episodes. 2009

James Hamilton, and Dennis M Kivlighan

Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA.

In this analogue study, therapists identified the core conflictual relationship themes (CCRT; wishes, responses of others, and responses of self) in relationship episodes taken from multiple clients in Luborsky and Crits-Christoph (1998). Judges identified the therapists' own CCRT using the Relationship Anecdotes Paradigm (Luborsky, 1990). Profile similarity analysis was used to examine the relationship between therapists' CCRT and the CCRT that they identified. Projection was identified by a significant relationship between the therapists' own CCRT pattern and the CCRT pattern that they rated in relationship episodes from Luborsky and Crits-Christoph, especially for wishes. The therapists' tendency to project was moderated by therapeutic experience and receipt of personal therapy.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007600	Judgment	The process of discovering or asserting an objective or intrinsic relation between two objects or concepts; a faculty or power that enables a person to make judgments; the process of bringing to light and asserting the implicit meaning of a concept; a critical evaluation of a person or situation.	Judgement,Judgements,Judgments
D008297	Male		Males
D010551	Personality	Behavior-response patterns that characterize the individual.	Personalities
D011369	Professional-Patient Relations	Interactions between health personnel and patients.	Contacting Clients,Pharmacist-Patient Relations,Professional Patient Relationship,Client, Contacting,Clients, Contacting,Contacting Client,Pharmacist Patient Relations,Pharmacist-Patient Relation,Professional Patient Relations,Professional Patient Relationships,Professional-Patient Relation,Relation, Pharmacist-Patient,Relation, Professional-Patient,Relations, Pharmacist-Patient,Relations, Professional-Patient,Relationship, Professional Patient,Relationships, Professional Patient
D011613	Psychotherapy	A generic term for the treatment of mental illness or emotional disturbances primarily by verbal or nonverbal communication.	Psychotherapies
D003379	Countertransference	Conscious or unconscious emotional reaction of the therapist to the patient which may interfere with treatment. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.)	Countertransference, Psychology
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328	Adult	A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.	Adults
D014167	Transference, Psychology	The unconscious transfer to others (including psychotherapists) of feelings and attitudes which were originally associated with important figures (parents, siblings, etc.) in one's early life.	Psychological Transference,Transference (Psychology),Psychological Transferences,Psychology Transference,Psychology Transferences,Transference, Psychological,Transferences (Psychology),Transferences, Psychological,Transferences, Psychology