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I Have Found the Enemy and It Is Me

Reflections on Ray Little’s “The New Emerges Out of the Old”

Pages 144-149
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The author shares Little’s (2013) experience that ego state relational units form the basis for characterological structure and that it is through experiencing them in the therapeutic relationship that they can be brought to awareness and transformed. These units involve split-off parts of the self that are projected rather than experienced because they were viewed by parents and/or the self as not OK. As they are mutually experienced and explored by therapist and client together, they can be reclaimed and used productively.

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Vann Joines

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Vann S. Joines, PhD, Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), is president and director of the Southeast Institute for Group and Family Therapy, Chapel Hill, NC. There he teaches, trains, and supervises other mental health professionals as well as maintains a private practice. He can be reached at 659 Edwards Ridge, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, USA; phone: 919-929-1171; email: .