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Demystifying Transference in Relationships

How to Own and Work with the Projections our Wounded Child Self

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Nessa Emrys
Jan 26, 2024
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Transference causes our deepest conflicts, repeats inter relational problems, and reinforces our strongest images. Identifying and learning how to work with transference is key to healthy relationships. Technical definitions say that transference is based on a response to our primary relationships early in life not meeting our needs. Transference is a response to a complex dynamic that has developed inside us. It needs awareness, consciousness, and transformation. It is a place where we believe that we are being in relationship while not at all being relational.

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