COUNTERTRANSFERENCE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("countertransference" is a kind of...):

transference ((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)

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