A maladaptive introject is a part of self that forms when mirror neurons fire in the presence of a significant role model who is physically or emotionally wounding ( such as an abusive or rejecting parent . ) In the DNMS model a maladaptive introject is conceptualized as a part of self with an intrinsically good true nature that is unwillingly wearing a mask or costume that conveys the role model's wounding messages.
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A maladaptive introject is a part of self that forms when mirror neurons fire in the presence of a significant role model who is physically or emotionally wounding ( such as an abusive or rejecting parent . ) In the DNMS model a maladaptive introject is conceptualized as a part of self with an intrinsically good true nature that is unwillingly wearing a mask or costume that conveys the role model's wounding messages.
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Many of the sculptures refer to black history and culture, explicitly so in Tyrone Mitchell's " Chair in the Sky for Charles Mingus, " but mostly obliquely : Robert Craddock's " Introjects, " for instance, is a suite of handsome wood totems loosely inspired by African sculptures, while Helen Evans Ramsaran's " Sanctuary " evokes a circle of trees surrounding an altar made of coiled branches; it is an abstraction in bronze derived from West African religious ceremonies that Ms . Ramsaran has studied.
