Psychological Transference

Transference is an unconscious displacement of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors from a previous significant relationship onto a current relationship
--- Robertson, 1999
Transference is a term that typically is used to refer to a transference of something, something is transferred, moved. "In the strictest sense, [the term is used for such a transfer only in regards to] therapy settings, but in a more general sense it occurs throughout life."(Ladson, 2007)Psychiatry (Edgmont). 2007 Apr; 4(4): 47–50. Published online 2007 Apr. PMCID: PMC2921238 PMID: 20711328 Recognizing and Managing Erotic and Eroticized Transferences. Darnell Ladson, DO corresponding author and Randon Welton, MD, LtCol, USAF Paulette Marie Gillig, MD, PhD, Series Editor The phenomenon is also referred to as projection, and these terms have been used to refer to the, so to speak, transfer of a thing; a conception onto an individual or a thing. It is seeing an object in an object. For example, psychologically a concept is as it were transferred from the psyche, being based in previous experience, onto a perceived object. When you see french fries, if you have seen french fries before, you may transfer your ideas from the previous encounter onto the new encounter: "these fries aren't crispy" (because you tasted crispy fries before). The object becomes perceptually synthesised with the content of transference, making a new synthesis (fries B compared to Fries A; i.e. "compared fries"). So, when Joe meets Jill, he will transfer unto her uncounted things from his previous experiences, along with recording new data from his senses and imagination. (Eiríksson, 2021).AAnon. It is common for people to transfer feelings about their parents to their partners or children (that is, cross-generational entanglements).English Wikipedia. The experience of transference might be thought of as a means used by the brain to make sense of current experience by seeing the past in the present and limiting the input of new information.2 Freud noticed the unusually and sometimes irrationally intense feelings that developed between patients and their analysts. He initially conceptualized the transference as the patient's attempt to repress childhood experiences. Later he observed that feelings of love not only occurred in the past outside the therapy session, but also during the analysis itself toward the analyst.Transfer of anxiety
"The most common example of the transfer of anxiety was from mother to patient. Mother would become anxious and then her thinking would focus on the sickness in the patient. The timing of this seemed related to the mother’s own functioning rather than to the reality of the patient’s functioning. Mother’s verbalization would include repeated emphasis on the patient’s sickness. Very soon the mother’s anxiety would be less and the patient’s psychotic symptoms would be increased. This mechanism was so common that any increase in mother’s anxiety would alert the staff for an increase in the patient’s psychosis. Just as the emotional calm or tension in an infant can be a most sensitive indicator of the functioning of a mother, so the psychotic patient in daily living contact with mother can be a more sensitive indicator of the functioning of mother than direct observation of mother herself."Bowen, Murray. Family Therapy in Clinical Practice (pp. 6-7). Jason Aronson, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
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* Sources on transference; Projection; Imaginal; Projective identification; Identity; Characterisation; Painting as; See as; Making him into; Construing; Rendering; Making me out to be; Now I am like; You are like; You remind me of; Unconscious fantasy; Don't hate on me; Role-play
*Intrapsychic transference
*Negative transference -- in psychoanalysis, a patient’s transfer onto the analyst or therapist of feelings of anger or hostility that the patient originally felt toward parents or other significant individuals during childhood. Compare positive transference.APA Dictionary of Psychology
*Over-definition; Low resolution; Distorted view; Through a glass darkly; Idealising; Favorable transference; Idolism
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Category:Psychology