Additional definitions

Question 1

Self states

Answer 1

AKA “internal family systems theory” which states taht one’s identity is often comprised by various internal parts (if healthy these are integrated, if wounded these become fragmented/split off)

Question 2

Projective identification

Answer 2

Feeling what the patient is feeling

Question 3

Holding environment

Answer 3

An illusory dynamic in which the therapist brackets their own subjectivity in order to allow for the client to enter a regressive dependence similar to parent-child relationship. This will allow them to work out complex relational patterns (i.e. splitting)

Question 4

Corrective attachment

Answer 4

The therapeutic relationship acts as a way of creating secure relationships that “corrects” the client’s previous relational experiences and helps them to engage in healthy relationships in the future (using the therapeutic relationship as a template)