Art Therapists' Countertransference and Post-Session Therapy Imagery

Abstract

This article presents an overview of a study on countertransference and art therapy based on interviews with fourteen professional art therapists exploring their use of drawings they did after sessions with clients. While none of these art therapists suggested that they relied on this method to identify their countertransferential issues, the experiences of several showed that post-session art making was useful for them in developing an empathic capacity, clarifying confused feelings, or rendering unacknowledged feelings into form.