IT WAS Freud who insisted that the analyst must be a veiled figure. In that way, Freud made himself available for therapeutic purposes; the patient saw in him that character, or tangle of characters, ...

Is transference harmful for Alzheimer’s patients? According to PsycologyToday.com, the concept of transference emerged from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic practice in the 1890s. Freud believed that ...

Sigmund Freud hailed the phenomenon of transference as fundamental to the process of dynamic psychotherapy. Freud depicted transference as a false connection between patient’s memories of a past ...

Transference -- the tendency to attribute characteristics of people we know to strangers who resemble them -- was once a bedrock of psychoanalysis. (First identified and used by Freud, who coaxed ...

There have been several questions asking about the empirical studies related to the construct of transference. I thought it might be useful to list a selected bibliography from the literature, ...

Only minutes into the graduate course in social work at Simmons College, the professor has begun to trash transference and psychoanalysis, major elements of the work of Sigmund Freud. Nothing ...

When I meet someone new and say that I’m a psychoanalyst, they often say, “Oh, you’re a Freudian.” Well, no, not exactly. Psychoanalytic thinking has come a long way since Freud, and there are now ...

1. As a young psychoanalyst practicing in London, Ernest Jones was so fascinated by Sigmund Freud’s early, as-yet-untranslated writings that he hired a tutor to improve his German. “Here was a man who ...