transference

(noun)

The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.

Related Terms

Examples of transference in the following topics:

  • Sensory Memory

    • It is retained just long enough for it to be transferred to short-term (working) memory.
    • In sensory memory, no manipulation of the incoming information occurs as it is transferred quickly to working memory.
    • The amount of information is greatly reduced during this transfer because the capacity of working memory is not large enough to cope with all the input coming from our sense organs.

  • Evaluating the Psychodynamic Approach to Personality

    • These objections raise issues with many of Freud's theories and methods including his singular focus on the structure of the human mind, his myopic view of human sexuality, his treatment using free association and transference, his reluctance to study children, and his utter lack of empirical evidence.
    • Freud believed that all disorders present in adults could be traced back to instances in their childhood at which point the transference of ill will from one person to another prevented the individual from mastering a certain stage of psychosexual development.

  • Audition: Hearing, the Ear, and Sound Localization

    • It senses sound vibrations and transfers them onto the incus.
    • The stapes (Latin for "stirrup") transfers the vibrations from the incus to the oval window, the portion of the inner ear to which it is connected.

  • Levels of Processing

    • The consensus was that information is easier to transfer to long-term memory when it can be related to other memories or information the person is familiar with.
    • Each level allows a person to make sense of the information and relate it to past memories, determining if the information should be transferred from the short-term memory to the long-term memory.

  • Specific Effects of Stress: Cancer

    • Metastasis refers to the transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body, specifically the development of a secondary area of disease remote from the original site.

  • Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Therapy

    • A conviction that life issues and dynamics will re-emerge in the context of the client-therapist relationship as transference and countertransference.
    • The focus on interpretations of defense mechanisms (often unconscious coping techniques that reduce anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful impulses), transference (a phenomenon in which a patient unconsciously redirects their feelings onto the therapist or another person), and current symptoms.

  • Cognitive Development in Childhood

    • This process improves message transfer between synapses and assists in brain development.

  • Describing Consciousness

    • He pointed out that there is no reason to assume that consciousness is tied to any particular body or mind, or that consciousness cannot be transferred from one body or mind to another.

  • The Nature and Meaning of Dreams

    • The hypothesis states that the function of sleep is to process, encode, and transfer data from short-term memory to long-term memory through a process called consolidation.

  • The Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)

    • An example of a polysynaptic reflex arc is seen when a person steps on a tack—in response, their body must pull that foot up while simultaneously transferring balance to the other leg.