Index (economics) In economics and finance, an index is a statistical measure of changes in a representative group of individual data points. These data may be derived from any number of sources, including company performance, prices, productivity, and employment. Economic indices track economic health from different perspectives.
Transference and countertransference. Transference and countertransference: In a therapy context, transference refers to redirection of a client's feelings from a significant person to a therapist.
Countertransference. Sometimes transference operates in the reverse direction and the therapist projects feelings from his or her own past onto the client; this is called countertransference. Although transference from client to therapist can have productive outcomes, countertransference rarely does.