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Double-Edged Swords: Understanding Transference and Countertransference in Non-analytic Therapy - Test
by Judith A. Schaeffer, Ph.D.

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1. Both transference and countertransference are phenomenon residing in: Help
The conscious mind.
 The unconscious mind.
 Both the conscious and unconscious minds.
 Neither the conscious nor the unconscious mind.
2. Transference and countertransference are phenomena that occur: Help
Only in psychoanalytic therapy.
 Only in non-psychoanalytic therapy.
 Only outside of therapy.
 In all forms of psychotherapy as well as outside of therapy.
3. Both cognitive and neuropsychological research data have confirmed that: Help
The transference process, but not the countertransference process, is actually instantiated in the brain.
 The countertransference process, but not the transference process, is actually instantiated in the brain.
 Both the transference and the countertransference processes are actually instantiated in the brain.
 Neither the transference nor the countertransference process is actually instantiated in the brain.
4. When therapists engage in introjection, they: Help
Receive projections sent to them without identifying with them.
 Automatically own them and the feelings connected with them.
 Never confirm them.
 Unconsciously engage in some kind of fault-finding.
5. Transference can only occur if there is: Help
Similarity between the therapist and the client.
 Dissimilarity between the therapist and the client.
 Similarity between someone in the client's past or outside of therapy and the therapist.
 Dissimilarity between someone in the client's past or outside of therapy and the therapist.
6. Therapists should regard positive transference and countertransference as having the potential to be: Help
Neither harmful nor helpful.
 Only helpful.
 Both helpful and harmful.
 Only harmful.
7. Transference almost always depends on clients having a: Help
Conflict they have not resolved.
 Conflict they have resolved.
 Desire or wish they can never fulfill.
 Conflict they can never resolve.
8. Reenactment of transference is different from repetition of it in that it: Help
Is done consciously.
 Is a matter of assigning roles previously taken by others.
 Has a minimal emotional effect on therapists.
 Rarely elicits therapists' cooperation.
9. One major difference between classical and totalistic definitions of transference is that the classical definition refers to experiences: Help
Occurring in the present.
 That occurred in early life.
 With persons currently outside the therapy setting.
 That are likely to occur in the future.
10. In psychoanalytic theoretical tradition, countertransference: Help
Occurs in the conscious minds of both therapist and client.
 Occurs only after therapists experience their clients' transference.
 Differs from transference in that it uses different neuropathways.
 Is the same phenomenon as transference but originates in therapists rather than clients.
11. It is possible to: Help
Pick up manifestations or cues of both transference and countertransference phenomena.
 Prevent transference and countertransference from occurring.
 Stop oneself from reacting to transference and countertransference as it is happening.
 Pick up manifestations or cues of countertransference but not transference.
12. According to Jungian theory, transference and countertransference are likely to be triggered by: Help
Personally experienced events only.
 Archetypal material as well as personally experienced events.
 Only those events clients and therapists have experienced in common.
 Only those events clients and therapists have not personally experienced.
13. Concordant Identification results in therapists: Help
Feeling like those affected by their clients.
 Feeling like their clients.
 Being able to do psychological work for their clients.
 Healing their clients.
14. Projective identification is different from projection in that it involves: Help
Putting material into another person rather than onto the person.
 Using both the conscious and unconscious minds.
 Displacing conflicts that have already been resolved.
 Displacing material from one person to another person.
15. Clients cannot heal from past psychological pain simply by engaging in transference because healing requires that clients: Help
Get help from both their therapist and people outside of therapy.
 Experience their pain repeatedly.
 Face psychological pain and deal with it.
 Work with therapists who have themselves healed from their psychological pain.
16. The exact nature of transference and countertransference triggered by archetypal material depends: Help
Only on the client's culture(s).
 Only on the therapist's culture(s).
 On both the client's and therapist's culture(s).
 On neither the client's nor the therapist's cultures because of the archetypes they hold in common.
17. The Mother Archetype refers primarily to the desire of: Help
Clients to be loved unconditionally and of therapists to love and nurture.
 Therapists to have biological children.
 Clients to avoid responsibilities.
 Clients to enjoy life.
18. The Mother Archetype is most relevant to therapy because: Help
Clients have more unmet needs from early life than those who do not come to therapy.
 Clients cannot resolve their mother-child conflicts outside of therapy.
 Repeated and intimate contact between two persons in therapy is unethical.
 Repeated and intimate contact between two persons in therapy is very similar to the mother-child experiences of both client and therapist.
19. The Father Archetype can become especially dangerous for therapists who: Help
Have a Savior Complex.
 Have biological children.
 Do not have biological children.
 Realize they are power-hungry.
20. Therapists who hold the following unconscious beliefs are likely to be especially vulnerable to the Sibling Rivalry Archetype: Help
"I deserve to be liked and loved by my clients because of all I do for them."
 "I do not deserve to be liked and loved by my clients for all that I do for them."
 "I should not be the main focus of my clients' attention."
 "I might feel like retaliating if clients treat me badly but have no right to do so."
21. The God and Goddess Archetypes refer to therapists' and clients' desire to: Help
Join organized religious groups.
 Amass riches.
 Be omnipotent and self-sufficient.
 Pray.
22. The God and Goddess Archetypes can become a problem especially for therapists who: Help
Believe in God.
 Don't believe in God.
 Belong to an organized religion.
 Have great fear of owning their mistakes and/or failing in therapy.
23. The Animus and Anima Archetypes refer to clients and therapists wanting to: Help
Be true to their biological gender.
 Have their gender strengths complemented by characteristics of the opposite gender.
 Be totally like the opposite gender.
 Be free of gender characteristics.
24. The Animus and Anima Archetypes play out in therapy when both: Help
Clients and therapists are willing to look at their own contribution to something not working.
 Clients and therapists admit their weaknesses and limitations.
 Therapists and clients insist they are right.
 Therapists and clients want to understand each other only at a superficial level.

 

 

  
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