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Transference is when a person in therapy begins to transfer their feelings (whether positive or negative) to the therapist. For example, the person in therapy may begin to look at the therapist as if the therapist was the patient's mother, transferring their feelings for their real mother to the therapist. This is considered a positive sign in psychoanalytic therapy, showing that the patient is making progress.Countertransference is the opposite--when the therapist begins, as a result of the therapy sessions, to transfer their own repressed feelings to the patient. It is also defined as the entire body of feelings that the therapist has toward the patient.
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