ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter, we followed the first of two sessions of therapy with an introjected other. The client, Loraine, began the work by expressing anger and irritation, which she identified as being not so much her own as that of her mother. She had “eaten” her mother’s anger and swallowed down her mother’s feelings and reactions and expectations, and those introjected patterns were now getting in the way of Loraine’s living and relating to others as she wanted to do.
