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transmuting internalization

transmuting internalization

in self psychology, significant changes and growth that can occur in a patient during treatment as the empathic failures that he or she experienced in early life are recognized and acknowledged by the therapist or analyst. [first described by Austrian-born U.S. psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut (1913–1981)]

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