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noun
The transference of a therapist's own unconscious feelings to their patient; unconscious or instinctive emotion felt towards the patient.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: psychotherapy
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noun
the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: transference
History
From counter- + transference, a calque of German Gegenübertragung.
