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Originally Posted by Favorite Jeans
How do you sort out what's transference and what isn't? My understanding of transference isn't that T reminds you of anyone else but that the feelings you have for her stem from an unmet need in an earlier primary relationship. The attraction in transference is no less genuine (we have transference in non-therapeutic relationships too), it's just that it's fraught with baggage from your past.
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well it can be hard sometimes to distinguish between transference and any other mental health definitions/problems that resemble each other. Especially since each location, treatment provider, culture and what have you all use mental health terms in so many different ways than each other...
the best way to figure out what you are feeling/what mental health terms mean in your location is by talking with your treatment providers. they can help you sort things out in a way that fits whats going on and what the term means in your own location, culture.....