APA Dictionary of Psychology

psychological rapport

Updated on 04/19/2018
  1. Carl Jung’s term for transference, which he defined as an intensified tie to the analyst that acts as a compensation for the patient’s defective relationship to present reality. Jung saw this as an inevitable feature of every analysis.
  2. more generally, a kind of agreement or affinity between individuals in their typical ways of thinking, affective responses, and behaviors.
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