It's an unpublished manuscript and so far I've had little luck tracking it down. The website where it was originally available for download is now inactive.
Full citation:
Zittel C, Westen D: The Countertransference Questionnaire. Atlanta, Emory University, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2003.
Is this any good to you? It does at least contain the questionnaire (p.17 onwards).
https://portfolio.du.edu/downloadItem/310177
Paul, unfortunately that's the Interference Inventory Questionnaire, which is slightly difference. They use Zittel as a reference, but still no dice.
Countertransference Phenomena and Personality Pathology in Clinical Practice: An Empirical Investigation.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.162.5.890
By Betan, Ephi; Heim, Amy Kegley; Conklin, Carolyn Zittel; Westen, Drew
The American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 162(5), May 2005, 890-898.
Objective: This study provides initial data on the reliability and factor structure of a measure of countertransference processes in clinical practice and examines the relation between these processes and patients' personality pathology. Method: A national random sample of 181 psychiatrists and clinical psychologists in North America each completed a battery of instruments on a randomly selected patient in their care, including measures of axis II symptoms and the Countertransference Questionnaire, an instrument designed to assess clinicians' cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses in interacting with a particular patient. Results: Factor analysis of the Countertransference Questionnaire yielded eight clinically and conceptually coherent factors that were independent of clinicians' theoretical orientation: 1) overwhelmed/ disorganized, 2) helpless/inadequate, 3) positive, 4) special/overinvolved, 5) sexualized, 6) disengaged, 7) parental/protective, and 8) criticized/mistreated. The eight factors were associated in predictable ways with axis II pathology. An aggregated portrait of countertransference responses with narcissistic personality disorder patients provided a clinically rich, empirically based description that strongly resembled theoretical and clinical accounts. Conclusions: Countertransference phenomena can be measured in clinically sophisticated and psychometrically sound ways that tap the complexity of clinicians' reactions toward their patients. Countertransference patterns are systematically related to patients' personality pathology across therapeutic approaches, suggesting that clinicians, regardless of therapeutic orientation, can make diagnostic and therapeutic use of their own responses to the patient. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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