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Originally Posted by SlumberKitty
As I understand it, attachment is the emotional connection we have to another person, transference is projecting something from the past onto the present with the therapist (so in other words, it's not really about your therapist, it's really about your father or your mother or some other unmet need).
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My understanding is that such intense attachments are inevitably transferences as well, because these early attachment needs are brought alive and transferred to the therapist in the psychotherapy setting. The intensity of these attachment feelings, generally inappropriate and non-typical in normal adult relationships, hints that they originate from an early age and are thus transferences.