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countertransference definition

counter·trans·fer·ence (ko̵unt′ər trans fʉr′əns, -trans′fər əns)

noun

in psychotherapy, transference in which the psychoanalyst or other psychotherapist substitutes the client for the original object of his or her own repressed impulses

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