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==Definition==
*1: the redirection of [[feelings]] and [[desires]] and especially of those [[unconscious]]ly retained from [[childhood]] toward a new object (as a [[psychoanalyst]] conducting [[therapy]])
==Description==
'''Transference''' is the tendency for a client in [[psychotherapy]], known as the analysand, to [[transfer]] emotional [[responses]] to their therapists that [[reflect]] [[feelings]] the analysand has for other significant people in his or her life. Transference often [[echoes]] clients' relationships with their [[parents]] or with other persons who played a central role in their [[childhood]]. They may become excessively dependent on or [[sexually]] [[attracted]] to the therapist; they may develop feelings of [[hostility]] or [[detachment]]. Whatever form transference takes, it is considered to be at the [[heart]] of the therapeutic [[process]]. [[Sigmund Freud]] believed that clients need to relive the central emotional [[experiences]] of their lives through transference in order to become convinced of the [[existence]] and [[power]] of their own [[unconscious]] [[attachments]] and [[motivations]]. The awareness gained through transference helps clients [[understand]] the sources of their [[behavior]] and actively aids them in working through and resolving their [[problems]].
[[Sigmund Freud]] described the workings of ''transference'' using an [[analogy]] to [[chemistry]]. Likening the clients' symptoms to precipitates resulting from earlier emotional [[attachments]], he compared the therapist to a [[catalyst]] and the effects of transference to a higher temperature at which the symptoms could be [[transformed]]. According to Freud, the phenomenon of transference is not unique to the [[psychoanalytic]] relationship between client and therapist—significant patterns of [[relationship]] are commonly re-enacted with "substitutes" other than psychotherapists. [[Psychoanalysis]], however, is unique in drawing attention to this process and utilizing it for therapeutic [[purposes]].[http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3406000644&v=2.1&u=tel_a_uots&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w]
[[Category: Psychology]]
