Transference is when someone in therapy redirects their feelings about one person onto someone else or their therapist. Learn about what causes it, what to expect, and more.

Transference occurs when an individual has emotions about one person that are actually related to their feeling for another. It's common in relationships between a therapist and client and may ...

It inspired me to write a brief overview of the concept here, with more to follow. To understand countertransference, it helps to tackle transference first.

Transference, in psychology, refers to the phenomenon where a person redirects emotions and feelings from one person to ...

In training, therapists learn to recognize their own feelings of transference toward the patient — what’s known as countertransference.

Then there is countertransference. Naqvi asked the audience to think about how they behave during a forensic evaluation of someone in their own ethnocultural group. "Do you have a warm demeanor ...

Merve Emre on the psychoanalytical concepts of transference and countertransference, and how they may apply to contemporary issues in the classroom.

Key points When patients project feelings onto their therapist, it's called transference. When it occurs in the therapist, it is countertransference. Therapists who pursue therapy themselves ...