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Transference
2. When symptoms shift from one part of the body to another. This is often seen in conversion disorder, in which emotional problems are changed into physical problems that have no known physical cause.
3. In psychology and psychiatry, when unconscious feelings, thoughts, and desires towards someone important in the person's development (especially someone from childhood) are redirected towards someone else who represents a person from the patient's past. Unconscious feelings and desires are those that the person does not recognize he/she is experiencing.
An example of the above meaning of transference would be if a patient redirected feelings of mistrust towards his/her parents to a psychologist during therapy. In this sense, transference is a defense mechanism because it allows the patient to reduce anxiety (nervousness) by reacting to others in a way that is familiar. Transference helps to understand the emotional problems of the patient and how these problems began. Transference can also mean redirecting feelings about one idea to another idea. The above meaning of transference is also written as transfer. Transference comes from the Latin word "transferre" meaning "to carry over."
1. The process of moving from one place to another. This meaning of transference is also written as transfer.
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