Shadow Integration
Reclaiming split-off material turns a disowned object back into first-person identity. Cleaning up concerns psychological fragmentation and shadow material. Projection makes disowned motivations appear to belong outside the self. Unaccepta…
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Reclaiming split-off material turns a disowned object back into first-person identity. Cleaning up concerns psychological fragmentation and shadow material. Projection makes disowned motivations appear to belong outside the self. Unacceptable feelings, impulses, or motivations can be split off into an unconscious it. Perls' empty-chair method is presented as a way to reintegrate shadow by speaking to and as a symptom.