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transference
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transference [tranz′fər·əns]
(psychology)
The unconscious transfer of the patient's feelings and reactions originally associated with important persons in the patient's life, usually father, mother, or siblings, toward others and in the analytic situation, toward the analyst.


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Even the typical scenario sets up complicated triangular patterns of transference and counter transference.
The cases invite counter transference and the loss of emotional distance.
Physicians and psychiatrists who deal with addicted physicians must guard against counter transference.
 
 
 
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