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It was to avoid countertransference resistance that Freud (1912) recommended that would should model ourselves on the surgeon and put aside all our feelings, and concentrate our mental forces on the single aim of performing the operation as skillfully as possible (p. 115).
In psychoanalysis, every major obstacle has paved the way for new discoveries. When Freud first realized that patients were more influenced by their feelings about him than they were their desire to profit from treatment, he discovered a major obstacle to treatment. However he found a way to make use of this nuisance-as transference (or resistance to transference, or transferennce reistance), it became the new cornerstone of treatment. Similarly, in doing supervision we often find that the analyst's countertransference (or resistance to countertransference or countertransference resistance) leads directly to the problem and to its solution.
It was and is sometimes suprising to find that modern analysis is still in the vanguard. By now, the use of induced feelings to make emotional communications has been such a long standing practive among modern analysts that one expects its value to be well established even outside the modern analytic community. Yet, when a panelist at a recent conference was asked if he would evcer consider asking a manipulative, suicidal patient, “Could I help you kill yourself” the question was considered too risky for a seriously disturbed patient. The purpose of such communication is to get some of the.