Therapists' personal therapy and professional self-awareness.

Surveyed 185 doctoral-level psychologists, averaging 16 yrs of experience, who responded to questions about their personal therapy histories and provided their professional reactions to 25 hypothetical psychotherapy situations. Results suggest that awareness of countertransference issues was highly significantly and positively related to the amount of personal therapy a therapist had received. Data also suggest a relationship between countertransference and the therapist claiming a psychoanalytic orientation, receiving personal therapy from a psychoanalytically oriented therapist, and having attended a psychoanalytically oriented training program. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)