LL, your interpretation is directly on the discussion. Supposedly, everyone's past will influence their daily responses. Some people's responses are more intense than others. The others may work through the immediate response, but I think that the intense responses felt by people with PTSD, are extremely difficult to figure out. To separate from what is real, and what I may be responding to (that reminds me of the past abuse).

I hope this was more helpful for you.

1.transference - (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst depth psychology, psychoanalysis, analysis - a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud; "his physician recommended psychoanalysis"

countertransference - the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction

displacement - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one