Adam starts to worry about telling his therapist about his drinking. He is afraid that the therapist will get mad at him as his mother used to. Adam has started relating to his therapist as he related to his mother. Adam is experiencing __________.

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Adam's fear of his therapist reacting like his mother and his tendency to relate to his therapist like his mother indicates he is experiencing transference. Transference is when the patient unconsciously projects feelings and attitudes towards their therapist that were originally associated with significant figures in their past.

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