Countertransference (Deep Dive) (2013 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 28 October 2025
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April 26, 2013
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Psychology in Seattle. I'm your host, Kirk Honda licensed therapist. |
| 0:05.9 | It's just me today. I thought that I would talk with you about countertransference. |
| 0:11.3 | What is it? What is countertransference? What are the different points of view? |
| 0:16.0 | What's the history of the construct? What's the history of the construct of countertransference? |
| 0:20.9 | Okay. So, so there's, there's really no way for me to summarize the history of the construct. What's the history of the construct of countertransference? Okay. So, so there's, there's really no way for me to summarize the history and |
| 0:24.9 | philosophy of countertransference in this podcast. The, the history of the concept is |
| 0:30.1 | intertwined with the history of the field, which is intertwined with the culture of the |
| 0:35.0 | various times and places in which it was discussed. |
| 0:38.5 | So the topic is too broad to encapsulate even remotely in this podcast. |
| 0:43.3 | So please keep that in mind. |
| 0:45.2 | Also keep in mind that if another scholar were to give a talk on countertransference, |
| 0:50.3 | you would probably hear some similar things and you would probably hear some very different things, some very different opinions than mine. |
| 0:59.1 | Therapy and its constructs like countertransference are very squishy topics that have to be described with our very imprecise language. |
| 1:09.8 | And the experience of countertransference is probably different for everybody to some extent. |
| 1:15.4 | And that's why I love psychodynamic theory, because it's so broad and varied, and it's open to these individual philosophies. |
| 1:23.5 | All right. |
| 1:24.0 | So anyway, let's get on with the topic. |
| 1:26.6 | As with almost everything in my field, all roads lead back to Freud. |
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