Transference
Phenomenon within psychotherapy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Transference (disambiguation).
Transference (German: Übertragung) is a phenomenon within psychotherapy in which repetitions of old feelings, attitudes, desires, or fantasies that someone displaces are subconsciously projected onto a here-and-now person.[1][2][3] Traditionally, it had solely concerned feelings from a primary relationship during childhood.[4][3]
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