Meaning of DIFFERENTIATION OF SELF (DIFFERENTIATED SELF):
The person who has a sense of self where she or he can be in an emotional field, among people, in social relationships, and who can be one’s own self at the same time. A person who can choose rational reactions based on thinking about consequences instead of reacting emotionally, without reflection, to someone else’s feelings. A person who can maintain separateness of self at the same time being in a unified relationship with other people.