In a Word - Transference (with a dash of neuroscience)

--Dr. O'Leary discusses the term Transference, and if you listen until the end, he relates it to some computational neuroscience.   Transference is a historically loaded term.  Transference is supposed to be an unconscious process, so it can not really be observed, only inferred, so this means that both the definition of transference and any instance of it in psychotherapy is dependent upon the therapist’s model and their particular way of interpreting that model.  But what exactly is this elusive but data rich unconscious process?

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