Box 8.

Supervisor’s Questions for Countertransference

● How do you feel in the presence of this patient? What emotions will awaken in you? What automatic thoughts appear? What feelings appear in your body? Is there anything else that is unusual or interferes with your experience?

● Is your experience with this patient different from what you normally experience with other patients?

● Is your behaviour toward this patient different from your typical behaviour outside of the session or during a session with other patients?

● Have you had any similar feelings, bodily reactions or thoughts in the past? Who was it with? When was it? Has a similar experience ever occurred with your loved ones?

● In what situations in and out of therapy do you have these thoughts, bodily feelings and behavioural reactions?

● What is the latest situation with the patient? What exactly do you remember? What does this mean for you? What else can you think of? Have you ever experienced a similar situation?

● What do you want to tell this patient, what has not been said yet, and what would be difficult to tell him? Which topic are you avoiding with this patient?

● What do you like and dislike about this patient? What do you find sympathetic and sympathetic?

● Are you uncertain about asking about some parts of their medical history or problems? Which areas are affected? How do you understand your hesitation regarding how you know the patient and how you know yourself?

● If you do not feel well with this patient, in what situations does this occur? What’s wrong with you? What do you need the most? Does it remind you of a situation in your life?

● Is there something you perceive to be important to other patients that you do not place so much emphasis on that patient?

● Do you often think of this patient outside the session? What are you thinking about? How do you think you are thinking about this patient?