Mapping transference: Friday 7th of February 9.30-1.00pm GMT
Fri 07 Feb
|Webinar workshop
Explore an emotionally focused view of 'fields' of transferences as a key part of working relationally using the conceptual tools and methods of Cognitive Analytic Therapy. This is the seventh time running this popular, skills workshop. We hope to see you there.
Time of Event
07 Feb 2025, 09:30 – 13:00
Webinar workshop
About the Event
This workshop offers a chance to explore a distinctively CAT approach to the dynamics and therapeutic uses of transference and countertransference. Its focus is on the push and pull of the unmet needs, old and new patterns of interaction and emotional roles in the transference fields of subjective, interpersonal and social relationships within and between client and therapist. These are often hard to notice, name and negotiate in session and need their own allocated mapping time and space in supervision. The temptations are: to bypass thinking about them; give them lipservice only; or rush to formulation and resolution too quickly. We propose a three stage model to transference dynamics:
- Pre-transference
intimations and anticipations of something going on
- In transference
feelings in the air between us and around us (pushing and pulling for responses) which cause anxiety and a call for help in hovering and shimmering with them long enough to be able to…