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Noun: countertransference  `kawn-tu(r)-trans'fu-run(t)s
  1. The psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction

Derived forms: countertransferences

Type of: transference

Encyclopedia: Countertransference