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transference
(trans-ferĀ“әns)
in psychiatry, the unconscious tendency of a patient to assign to others in the present environment feelings and attitudes
associated with significant persons in one's earlier life; especially, the patient's transfer to the therapist of feelings
and attitudes associated with a parent or similar person from childhood. The feelings may be either positive, negative, or
ambivalent. See also countertransference.

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