1 | INTRODUCTION
The objective of this text is to present, for all health professionals who work in medical settings, the phenomena and concepts of transference and countertransference found in daily non-psychiatric clinical practice. It is also aimed at presenting some possible interventions addressing these psychodynamic phenomena that could facilitate the work of clinicians with their patients. With these objectives in mind, the phenomena and basic psychological concepts—whether psychodynamic or not—from which the concepts of transference and countertransference emerge will be presented first. For each concept presented, the definition and nature of the phenomenon, an example with non-psychiatric patients—all examples are hypothetical and not from real situations—and a possible intervention to manage this phenomena in cases where they complicate working with the patient, will be expressed. The phenomena are not discrete and tend to overlap, therefore, the reader should feel comfortable when discovering that the definitions are not mutually exclusive. Also, it is difficult to express definitions by genus and difference that are not very narrow or too broad,1 thus, it is better to consider all definitions as an approximation to the real phenomenon that they attempt to define, and not to consider that the real phenomenon is what is defined.
To conclude this introduction, the author invites the reader interested in reviewing the history and empirical evidence on the existence of these phenomena to review Luborsky and Barret,2Yakeley,3 and Ulberg and Dahl.4