ABSTRACT
Transference is an important concept in psychotherapy, as well as everyday life. It colours all of our interactions. It is how we relate to others in our present life as if they were ®gures from our past. In relating, we draw upon a vast internal repository of relational experiences and interactions with others. The quality of these interactions is recorded, together with an expected response of the other, a longed-for response of the other, and a particular outcome of how we end up feeling or experiencing ourselves. In the therapy relationship, transference takes on a special emphasis as the past gets replayed in the present with the therapist, making it available for healing. TA has a range of concepts that we can use to understand transference, and the manifestation of transference. Typically, TA takes complex concepts and presents them in ways that are simple to understand. Below I describe how some basic TA concepts relate to transference, to assist those new to understanding and working with transference.
