INTERJECTED VALUES
These are beliefs that individuals have mistakenly taken on as their own as a response to their interactions with others, very often during childhood.   
For instance, a child who is bubbly might be shamed when showing exuberance therefore they may repress that part of themselves in order to avoid feeling unacceptable. An INTERJECTED VALUE of 'Getting over-excited is wrong' could be an  INTERJECTED VALUE that they form in order to protect themselves from future shame. Numerous INTERJECTED VALUES can become assimilated as objective fact by the individual in their early years, when there their needs to be expressive and accepted, valued, nurtured, attended to and loved, come into conflict with the needs of the caregiver, who may subjectively accept or deny certain aspects of the growing individual and convey this though various inter-relational means, including being critical, shaming, ignoring, praising or supporting.

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