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Originally Posted by sarahsweets
I think I'm confused about what transference is or means. It sounds like you just have feelings for your therapist and it sounds like it's something you need to come to terms with in order to keep making progress? Do you think that's an accurate way of looking at things. Do you think your feelings for him get in the way of discussing more intimate and important issues?
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Exactly. My feelings aren't a result of or related to the therapy - I'd feel them regardless. I just need to figure out the best way to deal with them because they interfere.
(I found this definition, just to clarify: "Transference is a theoretical phenomenon characterized by unconscious redirection of the feelings a person has about their parents, as one example, on to the therapist. It usually concerns feelings from a primary relationship during childhood.")