ABSTRACT
In the external phase of motivation the therapist empowers the client so that the therapeutic input may be internalized. Ultimately, the client must detach from the therapist which means reclaiming his or her projected positive wishes, goals, and values; in other words, the client's projected healthy aspects. The client who does not accomplish this will remain in a growth-stifling positive-transference relationship with the practitioner and be dependent upon continued proximity and contact with either the real-life or wholly introjected therapist. The client who does not claim his or her own authority will continue to see the practitioner in an unnecessarily positive light; the therapist's exalted status will prevent the client from discarding aspects of the therapist or the therapist's communications that are superfluous, redundant, irrelevant, inadequate, or incorrect.
