Mental Models are our `thinking patterns` and are the launch-ramps from where expression or activation is initiated. If these thinking patterns stem from mirroring flaws, they are hidden, and most likely allowed to survive in their disguise, and communication is doomed to reach a wall where acts according to true needs and wishes are not executed!

How do we reveal mental models:

Therapy is crucially depending on the therapists´ ability to identify; transference, counter-transference and counter-transference-acting out.

Why?:

These are projective mechanisms and are shaped by the mental model of your, (and your coach/ therapist´s) psyche, and therefore open to analyzes when identified.

Ex.; Person A and B

• Transference is when person A´s earlier experiences and painful emotional dynamics, are perceived as person B´s attributes in present time. Often called “defensive projections”.

• Countertransference, is when person B, experiencing the transference from person A, - reasons with and/or acts out on this projection out of his or her own vulnerabilities from mirroring flaws. Often called “identifying projections”, and confirms the transference expecteations from person A.

• Counter-transference-acting out is when person A then acts out his or her defense mechanism against emotional sufferings.

This can go on for a long time, - if it ever stops, and is the normal reason for relational sufferings. This projective way of communication will become visible to the client in the therapeutic arena, IF the therapist is skilled in identifying the transference and thereby laying projections to a rest.