Abstract
Introduction: Many experts claim that transference and countertransference analysis has no place in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and should be used solely in psychodynamic psychotherapy. However, attention paid to emotional and cognitive reactions to the patient or supervisee is the basic component of cognitive behavioural therapy and its supervision, especially if work with difficult patients is supervised.
Objective: PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus databases were searched for articles containing the following keywords: “countertransference“, "cognitive behavioral therapy" and “supervision”. No language or time constraints were applied.
The resources were confronted with our own experiences with psychoeducation in bipolar patients and only most relevant information was included in the text.