Abstract
This article describes a relational approach to deconfusion of Child-Parent ego state relational units, with particular emphasis on the client's experience of the impasse between him or her and the therapist in terms of the repeated relationship and the needed relationship. The repeated relationship represents the repetitive dimension of the transference, while the needed relationship represents the self-object and developmental arrest facet of the transference. The author also makes reference to and differentiates the therapeutically required relationship.