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Boredom in the Therapist: Countertransference Issues
Author(s) -
Flannery Jean
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.1995.tb00763.x
Subject(s) - boredom , psychology , countertransference , feeling , emptiness , psychotherapist , session (web analytics) , variety (cybernetics) , psychoanalysis , social psychology , epistemology , philosophy , world wide web , computer science , artificial intelligence
When a therapist is bored in the clinical session this is always, unless pathological, a countertransference issue. Understanding the causes and meanings of this boredom thus adds to an understanding of the therapeutic process and relationship. It may have a variety of causal factors which need teasing out in the furtherance of the therapeutic process. Boredom may be connected with feelings of emptiness or drowsiness but is in itself a distinct phenomenon.