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.
Transference and countertransference are neither good nor bad; like all feelings, they just are. Transference not only occurs in therapy, but in all of our relationships. In therapy it has the advantage that we can utilize it for growth. It's similar to projection, but not necessarily projection. Projection is a feeling you have from yourself that you project on to somebody else.