Isabelle acts as if her therapist is an important person from her past. By doing this, Isabelle will be able to re-experience her repressed emotions with her therapist helping her to recognize and understand these emotions. Freud called this process

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Freud referred to the process where a patient projects feelings about important people from their past onto their therapist as "transference." This allows the patient to re-experience and work through repressed emotions in a therapeutic setting.

Isabelle Acts as If Her Therapist Is an Important Person