Meanwhile, during a therapy, it is expected that the patient talks of whatever comes into their mind. This is a psychodynamic therapy technique, and it is called free association. However, regarding free association, if the patient shows resistance and he/she is unwilling to say what they have in mind and what their thoughts are, consequently it is not useful (Milton et al. 2004).
Freud believed that psychoanalysis' aim is to cure patients, help them heal by making their unconscious thinking and motivations, repressed emotions and experiences, conscious to them. Consequently, achieving ''insight''. Nevertheless, resistance is applied by the client as a form of reaction to retain all those emotions, memories and experiences in the unconscious. The use of free association technique is to help the patient uncover these repressed memories and make them conscious to them (Freud, 1925). Additionally, in a psychoanalytic treatment the association between transference and resistance is important. Transference in other words, is what is transferred from situations that occurred in the past to situations that occur in the present. There are many definitions of transference, one of them is:.
"The inappropriate repetition in the present of a relationship that was important in a person's childhood." - Kapelovitz, Leonard H. (1987).
Transference as described by Freud is all the unconscious emotions that are being developed for the therapist. However, when Freud applied the term of ''transference'', he was mostly referring to the patient gaining trust towards the doctor/therapist. Consecutive, the term was gradually developed by Freud and this could be recognized in his later on published writings. Freud after a case he had with an 18 year-old woman named Dora he started being more familiar with the importance of transference. He started treating her in 1990 and he started realizing the role of transference in 1905.