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Definition
the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another — especially to the therapist- Cognitive therapist are less interested in transference than psychoanalysts.
- She recognized his professed love as psychological transference.
- But no one dared to challenge Reb Saunders' tacit transference of power to his younger son.Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
- ON A BEAUTIFUL MORNING, just three weeks after Shiva's transference, Hema and I took leave of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- The theory seems irrefutable just because the act of transference of the people's will cannot be verified, for it never occurred.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- Assuming the target was also aware of it, or that he'd communicated it through his transference, yes.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
- He liked the prevalent mood in which feelings were sheathed in thoughts, and thoughts softened into felicity by their transference into language.James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
- "It is," she went on, "the sort of transference you find in dreams—the substitution in dreams of one person for another.Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
- When she was a teenager, a psychiatrist heard about her gift of color transference and arranged for an interview.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- Then there's the issue of what is called sensation transference.Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
- Could be thought transference.James Agee -- A Death in the Family
- I'm no shrink, but I guessed Sams had undergone some transference due to seriously unresolved daddy issues.Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
- I suppose now you do not believe in corporeal transference.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- But it was not only the transference of money that Bellamy had been asked to witness.Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
- "Which makes me wonder if the wights have been tinkering with nature," said Millard, "vis-à-vis the transference of peculiar souls."Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
- I should have gotten ten percent transference at best.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- I believe in thought transference now, vibrations in the ether, that sort of junk.Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
- If ever I hear again of any lapse from a proper standard of infantile decorum, I shall ask for your transference to a Sub-Centre–preferably to Iceland.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- A transference problem is no laughing matter.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- The truly horrifying thing was the transference of the same impulses to little white girls.Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye