In this case, if the transference reaction had been permitted to persist unchallenged, it might have become a transference psychosis—a delusional conviction about the therapist coupled with a loss of reality testing.

在这种情况下， 如果允许移情反应不加挑战地持续存在，它可能会变成移情精神病——一种对治疗师的妄想信念， 加上现实检验的失败。