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Winnicott's false self concept provides the starting point for an intrapersonal model of the impact and long-term effect of abuse. Abuse creates a false self personality system which carries a circumscribed set of behaviours and attitudes directed both at self and others. It is the opposite of the reciprocally enhancing relationship he named holding.