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It transfers the user's status ailment to the opponent. For example, if your Pokemon was paralyzed and uses Psycho Shift, your Pokemon gets rid of it's paralysis and induces it to your opponent.
You can just refer to Bulbapedia / Serebii for this stuff. :x