COUNTERTRANSFERENCE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does countertransference mean? 

• COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (noun)
  The noun COUNTERTRANSFERENCE has 1 sense:

1. the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction

  Familiarity information: COUNTERTRANSFERENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (noun)

Meaning:

The psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("countertransference" is a kind of...):

transference ((psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst)