Term
Transference
The tendency to direct at people in the present feelings that belong to people from the past. The book's image for it is the burned dog that dreads the fire.
The Mom Factor: Dealing with the Mother You Had, Didn't Have, or Still Contend With, Henry Cloud, John Townsend
Explained in
- The Mom Factor: Dealing with the Mother You Had, Didn't Have, or Still Contend With, Henry Cloud, John Townsend
- The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth, M. Scott Peck
The name Peck gives to carrying into adult life a view of the world that formed in childhood, helped then, and now gets in the way. The term itself comes from psychoanalysis.
- How to Be an Adult in Relationships, David Richo
A term from psychotherapy: a person unconsciously transfers onto someone else feelings and expectations that once belonged to important people from childhood, most often the parents.