Imprinting is translated from English as imprinting. This is the process of imprinting. Let’s say that something once left a deep pleasant mark in our memory: the brain remembered a specific image, emotions experienced at that moment, beliefs and even bodily reactions, and then repressed this information. For example, falling in love for the first time or gratitude to a person who treated us well - all this can be an imprint, a vivid image associated with pleasant associations, which is stored in our long-term memory. Then, after some time, we meet a person whose image matches the imprint. Even though this new person may be very different internally from the previously imprinted image, we will still associate him with positive emotions. Imprinting is part of transference reactions. This explains why our perception of some people is positive, and some - negative: we see a person and receive a certain associative series from long-term memory. Moreover, this relationship cannot always be detected due to the mechanism of repression or denial. Many people ask the question: is an imprint one and forever? Of course not. There can be many imprints, and stronger, new stimuli from the outside can override the influence of the original imprint, and then new associations arise. In addition, the imprint can be “recycled”. When working with an imprint, I draw an associative bridge from the present to the past (the EMDR method also helps a lot with this, since if information is repressed, it is not always possible to access it at the cognitive level). Next, the client and I explore what these pleasant or unpleasant experiences were associated with, re-evaluate them, or process them in EMDR as positive or negative trauma. In the process of processing, the imprint is transformed in consciousness and emotional extinction occurs in relation to it. Our brain is very inventive and, in the process of processing, it often finds optimal associations for itself, which replace the old imprint. In some cases, you can play with the image. EMDR is often integrated into other methods that involve imaginative thinking (EOT, for example, Symvoldrama), NLP (anchoring technique), etc. Mostly negative imprints need to be worked through, but there are also positive ones - for example, the idealization of an unhappy interrupted relationship. Transference is somewhat broader than imprinting. Imprints cause subjective experiences - the transference of our emotional experience onto another person, and transference can give us an idea of ​​reality if we disconnect from our imprints: with the help of empathy, for example, we can feel the emotional state of another and realize the role that he unconsciously offers us . If the imprint underlies the trauma, then the transference gives us access to the content of that trauma. Transference is any feeling we have for others. Imprints are also part of the projection, since it is our internal content, images in us, projected onto others. However, if the function of imprinting is rather biological, which was passed on to us from animals (to identify people of “our kind”, to learn a certain behavior, to recognize potentially dangerous situations) , then the projection has a protective function, which consists in maintaining a positive self-concept and a sense of control over life. By projecting, a person splits off from himself those parts of the “I” that do not correspond to the ideal I and attributes them to others. Labeling others makes them understandable in a primitive way. Analyzing what we say about others sometimes allows us to gain access to our internal conflicts. At the same time, a person has learned to split off and project from someone, once this behavior has turned into a stable pattern. This pattern can be called an imprint. In order to better know yourself and your partner, you need to explore your inner essences and learn to separate the real from the superficial. If a person cannot do this, then he merges with others and ©