Freudians would call it "transference"; whatever the case, Plath fell in love with her doctor. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Poets Society] Reference
Here's another trait of the GOP: They constantly accuse their opponents of their own bad behavior (psychologists call it "transference"). From Wordnik.com. [CNN Poll: Does the GOP want ideologically pure candidates?] Reference
This process can be particularly challenging when the patient's transference is eroticized. From Wordnik.com. [Gary W. Small, M.D.: Falling in Love With Your Psychiatrist] Reference
These perceptions and the reactions to them, which may provide fertile ground for understanding a patient’s past, are what we call transference. From Wordnik.com. [Shrink Dreams] Reference
Theory, in other words, "is" the transference — the transfer of the transference from the master onto the master's theory, which is in fact what the master desires. From Wordnik.com. [Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man] Reference
The reason we have so many ultrasounds is the risk identical twins have for something called twin-to-twin transference – where one baby grows bigger than the other. From Wordnik.com. [Ultrasounds At 20 Weeks] Reference
Remember a concept called transference, Dr. Gregory?. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Revenge]
This is what psychoanalysts refer to as transference. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation] Reference
People who live together have what's -- what evidence people call transference -- hair, fibers can go back and forth. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2003] Reference
Psychoanalysis of the so-called transference neuroses (hysteria and compulsion neurosis) offers us here a reliable insight. From Wordnik.com. [Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex] Reference
The idea of motion is nothing more than the idea of transference from place to place; there is no motion without direction; for no individual can move all ways at once. From Wordnik.com. [Emile] Reference
In psychotherapy, the term "transference" is used to denote this relationship. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference
She had developed a kind of transference, projecting her own disturbance onto him. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret Hesitates]
Isn't there a process in psychology called 'transference' where feelings get redirected?. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
I use terms like "transference" and "working through" to get at the transactional character of reading hypertext. From Wordnik.com. [Teaching Strategies for Hypertext in the Classroom] Reference
Whilst I agree with your conclusions in the rest of your statement, Seb, you have totally misunderstood the phrase "transference". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Furthermore, the psychological literature on "transference" of learning from one area to another finds surprisingly weak evidence of it. From Wordnik.com. [Mixed Signals: Why Becker, Cowen, and Kling Should Reconsider the Signaling Model of Education, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
In the mental health field it's called "transference". From Wordnik.com. [The Troy Messenger] Reference
He explains it through the psychoanalytic term of "transference". From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
It also serves as a psychological treatise on the benefits of obsessive baseball fandom; it’s called transference, right?. From Wordnik.com. [Fenway Fanatic Bunts a Book] Reference
It has even been argued that 'transference' occurs - meaning that the therapist has actually 'placed' the idea in the subject. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
Of course, this really is just an issue of transference. From Wordnik.com. [Ask Amy] Reference
The transference of heat would raise the temperature past. From Wordnik.com. [Stein Brewing: Extinct Beer Makes A Return At The Modern] Reference
If it were not a coincidence, it must be a kind of thought transference. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
It's clearly what we in the mental health profession call 'transference'. ". From Wordnik.com. [ More!] Reference
Anyhow, the mere transference of a character to an earlier period is no proof of use-inheritance. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
After his death a paper written by him was published describing catalepsy and sense transference. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Occasionally there appears to be, as it were, a transference of the parts of one flower to another. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Contract he calls a mutual transference of rights, and he distinguishes gift from contract as follows. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
York on the 24th of April, three days late, without the transference of any of her passengers to other boats. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
Nevertheless, the headaches had for years made the transference of fishing to someone for cash on the barrelhead. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
Shoes, coats, hats, all of it gets processed without exception, because of the potential for microbial transference. From Wordnik.com. [And We Are Laid To Waste] Reference
The greatest days of the packets were before this transference, and their diminishing splendour terminated entirely in. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
It's just really entertaining, and you could feel an energy, you know, sort of, transference happening when you're on stage. From Wordnik.com. [The B-52s, Bringing Back the Party] Reference
It's an answer for people who are working through psychological transference when they actually get transferred to another city. From Wordnik.com. [Dial 'P' For Psychotherapy] Reference
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