Countertransference

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /kaÊŠntÉ™tɹansˈfəːɹəns/

Alternative forms

• counter-transference

Origin

From counter- + transference.

Full definition of countertransference

Noun

1. (psychotherapy) The transference of a therapist's own unconscious feelings to his or her patient; unconscious or instinctive emotion felt towards the patient.
• 2007, Brett Kahr, Sex and the Psyche, Penguin 2008, p. 295:In my meeting with Dahlia, I found myself having a private countertransference thought which I certainly did not articulate to her.