Psychoanalysis: What are transference and counter-transference?

🧠 During therapy, when the relationship between a patient and their therapist is well established, there is often this strange phenomenon of the patient's emotional outpouring onto their therapist. 💬
🗣️ The patient projects their feelings from their past relationships, such as hate, desire, passion or anger, evoked during the session, onto their therapist. This emotional exchange is called transference (the transfer of emotions from the patient to the therapist) and goes hand in hand with counter-transference (emotional response from the therapist to the patient). 🔄
👫 This projection of emotions exists in any relationship between two individuals, but is all the more important in therapy between a patient and a therapist.
❓ How do transference and counter-transference work? What are the mechanisms involved in these two processes?
🔗📖 We explain it all in our article below! 👇
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