Psychotherapists have developed a special term to capture what | Encounter_HUMAN

Psychotherapists have developed a special term to capture what we inherit emotionally from the past: they call it our ‘transference’. In their view, each of us is constantly at risk of ‘transferring’ patterns of behaviour and feeling from the past to a present that doesn’t realistically call for it. We feel a need to punish people who aren’t to blame; we worry about a humiliation that isn’t on the cards; we are compelled to betray as we were once betrayed, three decades before. - reading self-knowledge by The school of life