PATIENT PERSONALITY AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE IN THE PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH ADOLESCENTS: TOWARD THE EMPIRICALLY DERIVED AND CLINICALLY USEFUL PROTOTYPES OF THERAPIST’S EMOTIONAL RESPONSES
Therapist’s emotional responses to the patient (or countertransference) can inform diagnostic
assessment, as well as plays a crucial role in the psychotherapy process and outcome across different
models of treatment. Although the clinical literature on countertransference phenomena in
psychotherapy is rich, to date, little interest has been shown in empirical investigation of therapists’
emotional responses related to the adolescent patient’s personality.
The aims of this study were to: 1) examine the stability of the factor structure and psychometric