Attachment is whether or not a client likes their therapist or not.example - I like LL and sometimes it makes me nervious when she is out of town. It relaxes me to think about her and pretending I am doing a relaxation visualization at night so that I can sleep.
Transference is taking the clients feelings for the topic being discussed and putting it onto the therapist or inanimate object so the client can work the situation out. Example taking about an abuser and feeling like the therapist is the abuser, role playing that the therapist is the abuser, imagining the chair is the abuser, and so on. "if your abuser was sitting right here what would you say?" If I was your abuser what would you feel, say ectera."
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