Accommodating introjections is a coping strategy. It may even become a model of coping strategies, so that cognitive/behavioural (rather than phenomenological) approaches, seem to be the ‘right’ way to go about things when we are threatened with incoherence and incongruence.
It may even be the case that our investment in these strategies is a what makes introjections so hard to relinquish. When we have had to work hard to achieve a delusional state, it is humiliating, galling, to find that the simple and obvious interpretations we were taught (as children) to reject were actually closer to being correct. We can become convinced that the very essence of adulthood is adherence to damaging shibboleths.
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