[Countertransference as therapeutic instrument in analytic child psychotherapy].

In the process of psychoanalysis or psychoanalytical therapy countertransference plays a significant role: On the one hand still unconscious countertransference reactions of the therapist hinder the progress of the patient, especially when they lead to an acting-out of the countertransference resistance. On the other hand every analyzed countertransference reaction helps directly in understanding the patient and furthers of the process of therapy itself. This also applies to analytical child-therapy, which is demonstrated by means of some case histories.