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Countertransference - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun countertransference

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

countertransference

Alternative forms

*counter-transference

Noun

  • (psychotherapy) The transference of a therapist's own unconscious feelings to his or her patient; unconscious or instinctive emotion felt towards the patient.
  • *2007 , Brett Kahr, Sex and the Psyche , Penguin 2008, p. 295:
  • *:In my meeting with Dahlia, I found myself having a private countertransference thought which I certainly did not articulate to her.
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    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.