Dr. Karyne Messina's Newsletter

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About Dr. Karyne E. Messina Psychoanalyst. Author. Podcast Host. Glass Blower . Identification with another person begins in infancy when children psychologically absorb various characteristics of their parents. This process is part of typical personality and character development. While this process continues throughout life, the critical formation period is between twelve and eighteen years old, when adolescents explore who they are, what they want to do in life, and what matters to them. This idea led me to believe we are all the result of what we have experienced up to this very moment in time, a thought I concluded during my childhood. It is a concept that helped me come to understand w

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