Definition excerpted with permission from Ginger, Serge International Glossary of Gestalt Psychotherapy (Seven languages including English. Order from FORGE at 183 rue Lecourbe; 75015 Paris, France) Paperback 1995.
-one of the classic 'resistances', consisting of swallowing whole the ideas or values of others, without digesting and assimilating them in one's own way. It is particularly concerned with the 'shoulds and oughts' of traditional education.
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