Yes, thank you heretoday for starting another thoughtful discussion.

Some of my internalizations of others were dissociated off from the rest of me as introjects and emerged in the therapy followed by subsequent integration. This was one of the most difficult things I've ever gone through in my adult life. Becoming aware of the introjects (there were 2) was horrible actually. My T was helpful at first, but when they manifested fully with anger and all, he did not handle it so well. Part of it, I think, is the way he views dissociation.

You've discussed your dissociation here in the past, so I thought you'd be interested. I think the less compartmentalized form of this turns into the inner critic, or superego. I am really regressed in therapy, so I think the way my T works (ie, usually pointing out negative things about me and making everything pathological, which often came across as critical) caused some new internalization that added to the more diffuse inner critic I have. I didn't realize it at the time, unfortunately, but at least we are working a bit differently now.