Countertransference Phenomena and Personality Pathology in Clinical Practice: An Empirical Investigation

data on the reliability and factor structure of a measure of countertransference pro-cesses in clinical practice and examines the relation between these processes and patients ’ personality pathology. Method: A national random sample of 181 psychiatrists and clinical psycholo-gists in North America each completed a battery of instruments on a randomly se-lected patient in their care, including measures of axis II symptoms and the Countertransference Questionnaire, an instrument designed to assess clinicians’ cognitive, affective, and behavioral re-sponses in interacting with a particula