A Counter-Theory of Transference

The article presents a sharp and debatable vision of the traditional concepts of psychotherapy: transference and countertransference and the problem field, which they come from. The author, J. M. Shlien – a follower and colleague of Karl Rogers - offers his reconstruction of the history of ideas about transference and proposes a new theory to explain the specific phenomena in relations between the therapist and the client which were once discovered by S.Freud. J.M. Shlien is a well-known psychologist, has worked in the Harward University for many years, he is an author of many influential books on counseling psychology.

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