Box 1.

Typical Questions That Help the Therapist to Map the Patient’s Transference

● What’s on your mind? What do you mean in this situation? What do you think of me in this situation? Do similar thoughts occur to a loved one? In whom and in which situations? Do you know these thoughts from any past situations?

● What emotions do you experience now in conversation with me? Is there anyone in your life with whom you have experienced similar emotions? Is there any person you currently experience similar emotions with? What would you need most in this situation? Have there been similar needs in the past? What did you do to fill them?

● When we talked about how you experienced your relationship with your loved ones as a child, did something similar happen to you when you met me?

● Is there something similar that you expect from me and what you expect from your loved ones, colleagues or superiors?

● Sometimes during our meetings, you do this … Is it something that is repeated in other situations or with other people?

● I wonder if there is something you would like to tell me when … (describe the behaviour)?