Transference occurs when a person redirects some of their feelings or desires for another person to an entirely different person. One example of transference is when you observe characteristics of ...

Is transference harmful for Alzheimer’s patients? According to PsycologyToday.com, the concept of transference emerged from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic practice in the 1890s. Freud believed that ...

Psychologists have told us that one of the most common behaviors we practice is transference, which occurs when people transfer feelings from past experiences to their current experiences. As with so ...

In my last post, "Is Your Glass Half Empty or Half Full?", I put forth the idea that transference is the special feature of psychoanalysis that makes it different from other kinds of psychotherapy. I ...

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. Recently I got a referral ...

She said I could tell her anything. By Lori Gottlieb Lori Gottlieb, a psychotherapist and best-selling author of a memoir about her work as a therapist, offers readers advice on life’s tough questions ...

At the center of “The Life of the Mind” (2021), Christine Smallwood’s comic novel about the vagaries of contemporary academia, are two scenes designed to mirror each other. In the first, the ...

I was married to my husband for 35 years when he left me for his therapist. My eldest daughter was so shocked and hurt by this that she called the woman at her work to ask her how she could do this to ...

Transference is when someone redirects their feelings about one person onto someone else. During a therapy session, it usually refers to a person transferring their feelings about someone else onto ...