Transference vs. Countertransference

Transferencenoun

The act of conveying from one place to another; the act of transferring or the fact of being transferred.

Transferencenoun

(psychology) The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.

Transferencenoun

The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.

Transferencenoun

(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

Transferencenoun

transferring ownership

Transferencenoun

the act of transfering something from one form to another;

Transference

Transference (German: Übertragung) is a phenomenon within psychotherapy in which the feelings a person had about their parents, as one example, are unconsciously redirected or transferred to the present situation. It usually concerns feelings from a primary relationship during childhood.

Countertransferencenoun

(psychotherapy) The transference of a therapist's own unconscious feelings to his or her patient; unconscious or instinctive emotion felt towards the patient.

Countertransferencenoun

the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction

Countertransferencenoun

the emotional reaction of the analyst to the subject's contribution.

Countertransference

Countertransference is defined as redirection of a psychotherapist's feelings toward a client – or, more generally, as a therapist's emotional entanglement with a client.