In psychoanalysis, the patient's tendency to react toward her analyst as she did originally toward her own parents (or other people central in her early life).
used in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, where the therapist acts out important experiences from the patients past.
The unconscious assignment to others of feelings and attitudes that were originally associated with important figures (parents, siblings, etc.) in one's early life. The transference relationship follows the pattern of its prototype. The psychiatrist utilizes this phenomenon as a therapeutic tool to help the patient understand emotional problems and their origins. In the patient-physician relationship, the transference may be negative (hostile) or positive (affectionate). See also countertransference.
Tranference describes how we unconsciously treat the people in our current lives as though they were somebody other than themselves.
In psychoanalytic therapy, the tendency of the client to displace feelings, attitudes, and defenses originating in a previous relationship onto the therapist.
The venting of the patient's emotions, either positive or negative, by treating the psychoanalyst as the symbolic representative of someone important in the past. An example is the patient's becoming angry with the psychoanalyst to release emotions actually felt toward his or her father.
The process by which desires, emotions, and behaviors of one person are later shifted to another person--as from parent to child.
(Reber) 1. Most generally, the passing on, displacing or ‘transferring’ of an emotion or affective attitude from one person onto another person or object. 2. Within psychoanalysis, the displacement of feelings and attitudes applicable toward other persons onto the analyst.
In psychoanalytic theory, an unconscious phenomenon in which the client projects onto the nurse or therapist attitudes, feelings, and desires originally linked with early significant persons. The nurse or therapist represents these figures in the client's current life.
(psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst
The unconscious assignment to others of feelings and attitudes that were originally associated with important figures (parents, siblings, etc.) in one's early life. The transference may or may not be a distortion of what actually occurred in early life, since it is based on early experiences as perceived by the developing mind. The psychiatrist utilizes this phenomenon as a therapeutic tool to help the patient understand emotional problems and their origins. In the patient-physician relationship, the transference may be negative (hostile) or positive (affectionate). In BPD, the transference often alternates between negative and positive.
Freudian term used to describe the unconscious assignment to others of feelings and attitudes associated with significant figures from the person's early life. Considered an important element of psychoanalytic treatment.
The "psychoanalytic" term for the phenomenon whereby a patient "unconsciously" makes the therapist the object of some emotional response, even though such responses would be more appropriately directed to some other person(s) in the patient's life history.
In psychoanalysis, the patient?s unconsciously making the therapist the object of emotional response, transferring to the therapist responses appropriate to other persons important in the patient?s life history.
Transference is a phenomenon in psychology characterized by unconscious redirection of feelings for one person to another. One definition of transference is "the inappropriate repetition in the present of a relationship that was important in a person's childhood."Leonard H. Kapelovitz, M.D., To Love and To Work/A Demonstration and Discussion of Psychotherapy, p. 66 (1987).
