Word: transferenceâ
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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...theory is that his unconscious difficulties will gradually break through into conscious thought. The analyst is generally passive and silent, offering no advice and speaking only to prod the patient into uncovering more nuggets from the inner recesses of the mind. The key to the Freudian "cure" is transference???the analyst replaces some crucial figure in the patient's background, usually a parent?and the patient eventually re-experiences blocked emotions and frees himself of the past...
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