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countertransference

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coun·ter·trans·fer·ence  (kountr-trns-fûrns, -trnsfr-)
n.
A psychotherapist's own repressed feelings in reaction to the emotions, experiences, or problems of a person undergoing treatment.
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Noun1.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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