terapeutilise suhte tehnika, milles terapeudi olemise viis ja käitumine on suunatud kliendi emotsionaalsete baasvajaduste korrigeerivale täitmisele, The therapy relationship as a “corrective emotional experience”, which involves the establishment of a secure attachment through the therapist, within the bounds of a professional relationship, doing what she can to meet unmet needs., Limited reparenting involves supplying, within the appropriate bounds of the therapeutic relationship, what patients needed but did not receive from their parents in childhood., Within the appropriate limits of therapy, the therapist acts toward the patient in ways that serve as an antidote to early deficits in the patient’s parenting. Through reparenting in imagery work, the therapist helps patients go back into that child mode and to learn to get from the therapist, and later from themselves, some of what they missed., Limited reparenting is both a therapist style and an active ingredient or component of mode-change work. Limited reparenting is defined as: acting as a good parent would in meeting child mode needs within the bounds of an appropriate therapy relationship. This means providing protection, validation, and comfort for the Vulnerable Child Mode; the opportunity to vent and be heard for the Angry Child; and empathic confrontation and limit setting for the Impulsive Child Mode. Limited reparenting is one of the core components of ST and a hypothesized active ingredient. Limited reparenting is often referred to as the “heart of ST.”