ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the introjected variety. The client's Adult and Child ego states are passively attuned and may derive additional benefit from the therapeutic exchange. But the primary target is the Parent ego state: that organized collection of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that the client introjected without question over years of exposure. Ben, the client, is working with the therapists for the first time, and the work contains elements of both diagnostic information-gathering and therapy proper. It eventually takes the form of Parent ego state work—the therapy of choice in dealing with introjected material. The adult Ben was present in the work only as an onlooker; the real client was Max-as-known-and-experienced-by-Ben. It is unlikely that Ben could have "known" all of the things that he revealed as Max; nor is it particularly important whether those revelations are historically accurate.
