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High-Yield Explanation
(D) Psychodynamic psychotherapy # Transference: Patient's feelings, behavior and relationship with the therapist.> Transference is a phenomenon in psychoanalysis characterized by unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another.> Transference was first described by Sigmund Freud, who acknowledged its importance for psychoanalysis for better understanding of the patient's feelings.> Focus in psychodynamic psychotherapy is, in large part, the therapist and patient recognizing the transference relationship and exploring the relationship's meaning.> Since the transference between patient and therapist happens on an unconscious level, psychodynamic therapists who are largely concerned with a patient's unconscious material use the transference to reveal unresolved conflicts patients have with childhood figures.