transference neurosis

transference neurosis
transference neurosis n a neurosis developed in the course of psychoanalytic treatment and manifested by the reliving of infantile experiences in the presence of the analyst

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a phenomenon occurring during psychoanalysis, in which transference causes the patient to undergo, with the analyst as the object, an intense repetition of childhood conflicts and traumas, reexperiencing impulses, feelings, and fantasies that originally developed in relation to the parents.

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