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COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
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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
Classified under:
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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