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WEINSHEL'S HISTORICAL REVIEW, utilizing the three questions posed by Hoffer as background, stresses that integral to the concept of the transference neurosis are:
1the revival of the infantile neurosis.
2the newness of the illness concentrated upon the relationship to the doctor, and created out of the frustrated demand for love.
3the dynamic, shifting, changing nature of the symptomatology—it is not a static concept.
4the displacements and transformations of energy: that essential to the development of the transference neurosis are the mechanisms of regression and repetition.
5that the old symptoms of the adult neurosis lose their libidinal force.
6that the transference situation in the transference neurosis is not identical to and does not describe in a one-to-one manner the nature of the infantile relationships which have been transferred.
7that eventually the transference neurosis itself becomes involved in a resistance to treatment; however, its management permits the undoing of repression and is the central issue of treatment; this differentiates analysis from other forms of treatment.
Harley points out that the transference neurosis may not occur as often as one would like. Her definition of the transference neurosis is similar, I think, to the one which Weinshel has outlined as the historical one, stressing the importance of the development of new symptoms or repetitions, and as a "transference of the patient's