This article offers a case study as a means of opening a dialogue about clients whose natural process of identity formation was impeded at the protocol level. The author invites consideration and an expansion of the work of Hargaden and Sills (2002) with regard to deconfusion of the Child ego state and the development of the self to include the importance of bodily experience in relationship and in the therapeutic alliance.
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