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Jan 01, 2015, 02:04 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 587
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Originally Posted by stopdog
A transitional object, in my understanding, is an object (rock, stuffed animal, figurine, key chain etc - any thing really that is tangible) given to a client by a therapist that the client associates with the therapist and derives comfort from that object when not with the therapist due to the association.
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Thank you for this. I gradually gathered as much as I read the rest of the posts. But you confirmed. 
I think theres probably something quite deep about them, but I cant quite get what that is, I've yet to discover. I gather it was Winnicott who first named this idea.
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