Projection
Attributing your own feelings or traits to someone else.
How it shows up
You’re convinced your partner is angry, though the anger is yours. You feel colleagues are judging you, when you judge yourself most harshly. Projection is so convincing precisely because it feels like observation.
What we do with it in therapy
The question that opens most: what if this is mine? Not as an accusation, but as a test. The answer often surprises.
See also
Play
A child's main language, and one of the most reliable indicators of how they are.
Loneliness
A sense of disconnection that doesn't depend on how many people are around you.
Emotion regulation
The ability to recognise a feeling, bear it and give it shape — without being swept away and without having to switch it off.
