ABSTRACT
Clients enter therapy with difficulties arising from conflicts or tensions caused by early and later experiences, their lives restricted by lack of awareness and lack of choice. Client that he or she is strong, calm, protective, empathic, and accepting enough to receive all of him or her, that the client’s feelings, needs, Including early unmet needs, yearnings, assertions, and demands are more than fine with the therapist. The therapist attempts to offer a response to the introjective transferences while at the same time being “ordinarily human”–making mistakes, acknowledging biases, disappointing the client in a myriad of ways that eventually allow him or her to accept the “good enoughness” of both of them. The therapist may act as a container for aspects of the client. The therapist becomes aware of experiencing certain disowned feelings of the client and is required to accept and manage them so that eventually the client can recognize and own them as part of himself or her.
