>more insights  Critical Parent Ego State - The Critical Parent
ES is that network that has recorded on it all of the childhood
messages of parents and other authority figures -- in other
words an Introject.  Many of the messages were assimilated
(accepted as part of self)... "look both ways before you cross
the street". Others were "taken in" but not assimilated
(introjects) because they created limitations and barriers to
intimacy..."don't talk, don't trust, don't feel".  These are
also known as Internalizer and an Externalizer but we tend to
fall closer to one end of the continuum than the other.
Internalizers tend to turn their critical parent messages inward
to create (Introjection) and perpetuate what we know as low
self-esteem and negative self-talk.  Externalizers turn their CP
messages outward (Projection) to create and perpetuate what we
know as grandiosity or narcissism. These characteristics of
self-centeredness (aka "Big Ego") are created by the
psychological defense mechanism of reaction format