Transference

Transference is the unconscious redirection of feelings, attitudes or desires from an important relationship in a person's past onto a person in their present life, most often a psychotherapist. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was the first to describe the phenomenon, and he came to treat it as central to psychoanalytic treatment. Feelings transferred onto a therapist can take many forms, including romantic attraction, mistrust, anger or idealization, drawn from the patient's early relationships rather than from anything the therapist has actually done. Freud initially saw transference as a form of resistance to treatment, but he later found that analyzing it directly became one of psychoanalysis's most useful tools for uncovering a patient's unresolved conflicts. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/