WILMER H A
Calif Med. 1962 Mar;96(3):173-80.
The phenomenon of transference to a medical center is similar to the transference given to an individual physician, the feelings being invested in The Center rather than in a person. The reputation and the image of The Center can give therapeutic sustenance. There are common features to each healing organization from primitive times to the journeys to the Oracles at the shrine of Zeus at Dodona and Apollo at Delphi, to Mecca and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to Lourdes and Gheel, and to the present-day medical center. A phenomenon which we have identified as Transference to a Center has previously been known to physicians, theologians, historians, sociologists and anthropologists, by different names. In a social sense, transference to a medical center is akin to an Edifice complex.
向医疗中心转移的现象类似于对个体医生的移情，情感被倾注于医疗中心而非某个人身上。医疗中心的声誉和形象能给予治疗上的慰藉。从原始时代到前往多多纳宙斯神庙和德尔斐阿波罗神庙的神谕之旅，从麦加到圣巴塞洛缪医院，从卢尔德到热尔，再到当今的医疗中心，每个治疗机构都有共同特征。我们所认定的向中心转移这一现象，此前在医生、神学家、历史学家、社会学家和人类学家那里，有着不同的称谓。从社会意义上讲，向医疗中心转移类似于一种建筑情结。
