The healthcare provider is counseling a patient who is diagnosed with depression. Which of the following statements made by a patient should the healthcare provider recognize as a sign of transference?

Transference occurs when a patient directs feelings and attributes from a person or situation in the past on to a person or situation in the present. Transference is an unconscious response that may create a therapeutic impasse in the patient-healthcare provider relationship if not handled by the counselor. The other responses are examples of rationalization, which occurs when the patient attempts to create an acceptable explanation for unacceptable behavior.