Using Transference To Improve Connection

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode of the podcast, I would like to give you my take on transference. I want to share with you what I actually believe. Often lectures focus on the history of transference or what certain papers say, but I’d like to share my accumulated, internalized experiences and understanding of transference.

My hope is to make this easy to read and understand. I want to give a talk on this that can be understood both by experienced clinicians who are familiar with these concepts, who will imagine where I am pulling different pieces of wisdom and maybe where I am being creative and uniquely contributing to the field, but also by people who don’t have much of a background on transference and want to further explore it.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back to the podcast. I am going to do a solo episode today on using
0:19.1	transference to improve connection. This will be part two of my psychodynamic series. The
0:25.8	first part was listening psychodynamically. It will stand alone, but you can go back and listen
0:30.7	to that afterwards if you like this one. And this is my take on transference. And I want to share
0:39.2	with you actually what I believe often in lectures. We can focus on the history or this paper says
0:50.2	this. And what I want to do is I want to share what actually has been internalized in myself. Or
1:00.2	you know, I was thinking I could share, you know, studies on hysteria and walk through the history
1:06.0	of transference and how it happened. And maybe in a future episode, I will. But for this one, I want
1:11.7	to be as honest as I can to my own experience. And I want to make this easy to listen to. So a lot
1:22.8	of the things I've read on transference are very difficult to read. You have to kind of know who
1:31.8	wrote what before. And then you have to then understand where they're coming from. And so I'm trying
1:39.9	to create an episode on transference that can be understood by clinicians who know this stuff. Maybe
1:45.7	you got some training in residency as well. Or you know, therapy practice as well as maybe someone
1:53.4	who's listening and wanting a perspective who doesn't have a background in a lot of complicated
2:00.0	words that are often used to describe such things as transference. So okay, what is transference?
2:07.0	Transference is how we understand future relationships by categorizing past close relationships.
2:15.8	So by categorizing past close relationships, we can be prepared to meet new people.
2:24.8	Past is always alive in the present in this way in that it gives us a framework to understand
2:31.8	and categories to put people in. This isn't something that's going on consciously. It's often
2:39.0	very unconscious, especially if you haven't done any therapy on your transference that you have.
2:45.0	We have transference with every person in therapy or out of therapy. And when you are working
2:52.3	in the transference in therapy, there's this focus on the present moment. What is going on
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