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Insight Resistance Interpretation Transference

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

Insight - Awareness into one’s own mental processes. Resistance - An unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness. Interpretation - The analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings resistances & other significant behaviors & events in order to promote insight. Transference - The patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships.

AP course connection

Topic 8.7: 8.7 Introduction to Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Unit 8

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