DISCUSSION: Dr. Anni Bergman noted that Dr. Kernberg had used herself as a mirror in the treatment of a child with poor self/object differentiation. The child had used the mirroring in the process of self-integration. Children develop their first image of themselves by way of how the mother perceives and mirrors them. The mother creates a symbiotic orbit by protecting the baby from seeing her as different or separate too early. At this stage, the baby, when looking at mother, does