"A translation of feelings about the person of the doctor ... ready in the patient .. transferred to the person of the doctor during the analytic treatment ... As long as its translation is preceded by a plus sign, it is of the medical authorities and are converted into confidence in its communications and concepts ... His feelings are not in the present situation and not intended for the person of the doctor, but he repeated something that has already happened before "(Freud, Collected Works, Vol VIII, pp. 591-594).
The concept of transference gradually developed dall'ipnotismo and suggestion. Mesmer, hypnotists and old-school thought that something flowed from the psychiatrist to the patient, putting him under hypnosis. Later, when Bernheim showed that a patient may enter alone in a hypnotic state through autosuggestion, the conclusion was that all that mattered was the mind of the patient. He is both a hypnotist and patient. Thus, the personality of the hypnotist and external psychiatrist seemed negligible. Psychoanalysis further investigate the issue and demonstrated that the patient, identifying the psychiatrist with some products of his imagination, to project emotions on the psychiatrist. The psychoanalyst, aware of this mental process of the patient, makes it the basis of treatment. The spontaneity and psychodramatic work pushed us to a vision of patient-physician relationship clearer and wider. In the psychoanalytic situation, there is only the person making the positive or negative transference the patient. There is only one pole. The psychiatrist is considered a target agent, at least during treatment, free from emotional implications, present only to analyze the patient's material that sets. But it's so only in appearance. Perhaps only because the patient is analyzed.
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