Self improvement tip 10: Learn the art of small talk. If you have finally decided to not be an ascetic and live a material life after all, you might as well be a master in navigating the societal patterns. Small talk can take you places, literally.
countertransference. [-transfurâ²Éns]. the conscious or unconscious emotional response of a psychotherapist or psychoanalyst to a patient. The response may be positive or negative but can provide useful data in the therapy.
A counterexample, in geometry as in other areas of mathematics and logic, is an example that one uses to prove that a particular statement is false. A simple example from primary mathematics uses the statement the inverse of a number is never an integer, and its counterexample would be 1/4.