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#Betterhelp evidently warns patients about the signs of #countertransference and instructs them what to say should it come up. What they are instructed to do is to terminate. When I saw this at first, I just thought it was beyond stupid. Upon further reflection, it’s worse. It’s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Research on the therapeutic relationship & alliance has shown that it predicts outcomes of therapy. Recent research has looked more closely at this & found therapy marked by a “V curve” in the therapeutic relationship is what determines therapy outcome. V curve - good outcome. No… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The V curve refers to a rupture-repair dynamic, meaning the relationship is strong, there is a rupture (almost by definition involving countertransference and negative transference). Then patient and therapist work through it and repair the relationship and the alliance is back… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
