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During her last session with James, her psychoanalyst, Emma, who was devastated with the death of her older brother, told James that he reminds her of her older brother. James concludes that Emma has experienced

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transference

Step-by-step explanation:

Transference is a term used to describe a situation in which an individual tends to do a redirection of emotions and feelings mostly without knowing from one person to another person.

This happens when one begins to interact with a person as if he is the other individual.

The psychoanalyst being reminded of his brother while interacting with James and telling him of how he reminds her of her brother is a case of transference.

At that point She was seeing her brother in James.

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