Table 1 Five categories of Relational Interventions and Transference Interventions defined in FEST^a

Relational interventions (RI):

 1. The therapist addresses interpersonal transactions with other (s)^b.

 2. The therapist actively encourages the patient to explore thoughts and feelings about his/her relationships to other (s)^b including their style and behavior.

 3. The therapist encourages the patient to discuss how other (s)^b might feel or think about the patient.

 4. The therapist makes interpretive linking of dynamic elements (conflicts) in the patient’s relationships with other (s)^b.

 5. The therapist attempts to explore interpersonal repetitive patterns with important other (s)^b and with parental figures.

Transference Interventions (TI):

 1. The therapist addresses transactions in the patient–therapist relationship.

 2. The therapist encourages exploration of thoughts and feelings about the therapy and therapist’s style and behavior.

 3. The therapist encourages patients to discuss how they believed the therapist might feel or think about them.

 4. The therapist includes him-/herself explicitly in interpretive linking of dynamic elements (conflicts), direct manifestations of transference, and allusions to the transference.

 5. The therapist was to interpret repetitive interpersonal patterns (including genetic interpretations) and link these patterns to transactions between the patient and the therapist.