Abstract
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.