What Do I Project onto Other People?
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Why do we so often expect people to be judgmental, hostile, or unreliable? While we like to think our judgments of others are based on objective reality, psychotherapy reveals a different truth: we are constantly projecting our forgotten pasts onto the present. Start your free Membership trial – 2,000+ articles, 1,000+ videos, 50+ courses, free for a week: https://www.theschooloflife.com/membership Our dark assumptions, suspicions, and fears are rarely about the strangers we meet today—they are the unhealed sediment of the people who troubled us a long time ago. In this film, we explore how to uncover your hidden biases and free your relationships from the shadows of childhood. “One of the most continuously fascinating ideas in psychotherapy is the concept of projection. What this means, simply put, is that all of us have a storehouse of assumptions about what other people are like and how they will behave which owes very little to actual people who we meet today and a lot more to d
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