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Alternative forms

• counter-transference

Noun

countertransference ‎(countable and uncountable, plural countertransferences)

1. (psychotherapy) The transference of a therapist's own unconscious feelings to his or her patient; unconscious or instinctive emotion felt towards the patient.
   • 2005, Meg Wolitzer, The Position, Vintage 2012, p. 94:

     ‘She had a very unusual, difficult childhood. I guess, what with her history and all, she brings out these fatherly feelings of countertransference in me.’

   • 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.

Derived terms

• countertransferent
• countertransferential