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countertransference

coun·tert·rans·ference

UK/kaʊntətɹansˈfəːɹəns/ uncommon

noun

1.

the psychoanalyst''s displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst''s emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction

Origin

From counter- + transference, a calque of German Gegenübertragung.

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