Treatment continues by moving to help the client understand transference. This could be done through helping the client analyze how his or her relationships reflect the interaction between an aspect of the patient's self and his representation of a significant other. This can be shown through the client’s representation in the therapeutic relationship as the patient at times is the abuser and at other times the victim while projecting the complementary role onto the therapist. By helping patients understand how they alternately thrust these roles on themselves and the therapist and how this reflects the unconscious activation of a past relationship, patients gradually become more aware of their tendency to enact both complementary roles and
