analysis of transference

in psychoanalysis, the interpretation of a patient’s early relationships and experiences as they are reflected and expressed in his or her present relationship to the analyst. Also called transference analysis. See transference.

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February 24th 2025

Cotard’s syndrome

a psychotic condition characterized by severe depression and intense nihilistic delusions (see nihilism) in which individuals insist that their bodies or parts thereof, and in some cases the whole of reality, have disintegrated or ceased to exist. [first reported in 1880 by Jules Cotard (1840–1887), French neurologist, who called it délire de négation (“delirium of negation”)]