Editing Transference (section)

{{Short description|Phenomenon within psychotherapy}}
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{{POV|talk=Criticism of the concept|date=October 2017}}
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{{Psychoanalysis |Concepts}}
'''Transference''' ({{langx|de|Übertragung}}) is a phenomenon within [[psychotherapy]] in which [[Repetition compulsion|repetitions]] of old [[Affect (psychology)|feelings]], [[Attitude (psychology)|attitudes]], [[Philosophy of desire|desires]], or [[Fantasy (psychology)|fantasies]] that someone [[Displacement (psychology)|displaces]] are subconsciously [[Psychological projection|projected]] onto a [[Social environment|here-and-now]] person.<ref>{{cite book
 |last=Gladding
 |first=Samuel
 |date=2018
 |title=Family Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice
 |publisher=Pearson
 |edition=7
 |page=215
 |isbn=
 |quote=Transference is the projection of feelings, attitudes, or desires onto a significant other such as a therapist (Levy & Scala, 2012).}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
 |last=Corey
 |first= Gerald
 |date=2020
 |title=Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy
 |url=
 |location=
 |publisher=Cengage Limited
 |pages=70–71
 |isbn=
 |quote= Transference is the client's unconscious shifting to the analyst of feelings, attitudes, and fantasies (both positive and negative) that are reactions to significant others in the client's past. Transference involves the unconscious repetition of the past in the present. 'It reflects the deep patterning of old experiences in relationships as they emerge in current life' (Luborsky et al., 2011, p. 47). [...]  Not every positive response (such as liking the therapist) should be labeled 'positive transference.' Conversely, a client's anger toward the therapist may be a function of the therapist's behavior; it is a mistake to label all negative reactions as signs of 'negative transference.'}}</ref><ref name=3Coreys>{{cite book
 |last1=Corey
 |first1=G.
 |last2=Corey
 |first2=M. S.
 |last3=Corey
 |first3=C.
 |date=2020
 |title= Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions
 |publisher= Cengage Limited
 |edition=10
 |page=47
 |isbn=
 |quote=Transference is the process whereby clients project onto their therapists past feelings or attitudes they had toward their caregivers or significant people in their lives. Transference is understood as having its origins in early childhood and constitutes a repetition of past themes in the present. [...] Transference is not a catch-all concept intended to explain every feeling clients express toward a therapist. Many reactions clients have toward counselors are based on the here-and-now style the counselor exhibits.}}</ref> Traditionally, it had solely concerned feelings from a primary relationship during childhood.<ref>{{cite book
 |last=Karen
 |first=Horney
 |author-link=Karen Horney
 |date=1939
 |title=New Ways in Psychoanalysis
 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company
 |page=167
 |isbn=978-0-393-31230-0
 |quote=I do not think it is of any consequence whether we keep or drop the term transference, provided we divorce it from the one-sidedness of its original meaning: the reactivation of past feelings.}}</ref><ref name=3Coreys/>