Term
transference
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.
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth, M. Scott Peck
Explained in
- The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth, M. Scott Peck
- 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.