Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun countertransference

1 sense of countertransference

Sense 1
countertransference -- (the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction)
       => transference -- ((psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst)