Differing Views of Transference

Abstract

The gap between Rhoads’s perspective and mine seems to me so wide that I despair of making any genuine contact. I come to that conclusion in large measure because of the many indications of the gulf between us in our understanding of transference. I say this despite the fact that he does agree that a transference relationship develops in every therapy, whatever the approach, that even a referral has meaning in the transference, and that he cites problems in which behavioral methods cannot be more than partially successful at best.