Therapeutic approach to projective identity: Initial phase, therapeutic relationship over therapeutic technique”, empathic involvement. Second, the task of the clarification phase: clarifying and revealing the projective identity. The therapist needs to transform the implicit messaging (i.e., nonverbal, latent, implicit) associated with the projective identity into overtly explicit expression. For example, in the projective identity of dependency, a girl repeatedly communicates to you that “you are the only person I can trust now” and “I don’t know if I would have been able to survive if I hadn’t met you”, and she gives various excuses for not wanting to leave after the consultation, or wants to invite you to dinner. The therapist first accommodates the projected “good object dependency object”, and slowly the therapist feels the entanglement of dependency (countertransference). At this point, the therapist needs to explicitly tell the girl, “I feel the pressure of being dependent on you” or “There are people in your life who care for you unconditionally, and I feel that you want to treat me as such”. At the end of this stage, the relationship has been clarified and the visitor will feel a sense of understanding. Thirdly, the analysis stage: confrontation and explanation. In this stage, the analysis of projective fantasies and the analysis of split cognitive patterns, the analysis of identity, and the analysis of conflict patterns are completed. At the same time, the therapist needs to respond to the projected “pandering” or “sexual empathy” by rejecting it and making his or her position clear to the client. It is important to note that the therapist is rejecting the relationship and not the person in question, articulating a “matter-of-fact” rejection. The therapist uses questioning, preferably open-ended questions to explain “conflict patterns” if at the verbal level, and implicit refusals to reveal “projective fantasies” if at the emotional level, e.g., when the person communicates a “return” request. When the other person communicates a request for “return”, the therapist can use silence, or a look, gesture, etc. to express non-acceptance. At this stage, there is a reincarnation of the projective identity, i.e., after clarifying and dealing with the projective identity, a new type of projective identity emerges, causing the therapeutic relationship to regress to a new projective identity stage, thus requiring a reanalysis and reinterpretation of the projective identity. This stage is reached when the visitor begins to realize that the previous relationship with the therapist (which was projective or undesirable) no longer exists and both the client and the visitor feel at ease. Finally, it can be considered as the integration stage. Strictly speaking, this phase overlaps with the analytical phase, because the therapist also gives the visitor a lot of feedback, mainly about his or her own feelings during the relationship with the other person (still countertransference), in order to remind the visitor of how the other person feels about the relationship with him or her in real life, so that the visitor not only knows himself or herself, but also knows others. Likewise, the therapist has to explain in detail and with precision the “split cognitive pattern” and “false identity”, explaining that the topics emphasized are more related to the threat of abandonment, rejection, and the internalization of “good-bad”. -The explanation emphasizes topics that are more related to the threat of abandonment and rejection, to the internalization of “good” and “bad”. All the explanations should focus on a realistic goal – that the visitor should emerge from the original projective pathological relationship and begin to understand that he or she can be cared for and accepted (by the formerly dependent person) without being dependent on others at all, and realize that he or she can be respected and recognized without having to satisfy the needs of others at all. In the end, it is the self-trauma of abandonment, denial, deception, and blowing in one’s early life that is constantly creating a source of projective identity. Therefore, regardless of the theoretical context of projective identity therapy, the ultimate goal is the same: to reverse negative identity and integrate the split cognitive structure. In sensual terms, it is how to convert the internalized hurtful hate into love.