countertransference

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coun·ter·trans·fer·ence

(koun′tər-trăns-fûr′əns, -trăns′fər-)

Psychological transference by a psychotherapist in reaction to the emotions, experiences, or problems of a patient undergoing treatment.

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

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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countertransference

n (psych) contratransferencia

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