Abstract

This study is to find out how playtherapist`s experience from childhood with their parent affect on the countertransference feelings to child patients and child patient`s parents. The subjects of this study were 76 playtherapists who had more than 5 playtherapy cases experience. The results of this study are as follows. 1) Playtherapists who habitually tended to felt 'Close' countertransference feelings toward their child patients had more over-protected experience from mother and playtherapists who habitually tended to felt 'Cold' countertransference feelings toward their child patients had more being-rejected experience from mother. And playtherapists who habitually tended to felt 'Stuck' countertransference feelings had more being-rejected experience from father. 2) Playtherapists who habitually tended to felt 'Positive' countertransference feelings toward their child patient`s parent had more accepted from mother and encouraging-independence experience from father, playtherapists who habitually tended to felt 'Distant' countertransference feelings had more over-protected from mother and accepted experience from father. In addition, playtherapists who habitually tended to felt 'Close' and 'Negative' countertransference feelings toward their child patient`s parent had over-protected experience from mother whereas playtherapists who habitually tended to felt 'Cold' and 'Stuck' countertransference feelings had more being-rejected experience from mother. 3) There was significant relationship between sub-factors of the playtherapists` countertransference feelings to child patients and sub-factors of the playtherapists` countertransference feelings to child patients` parent.