Our own implicit belief systems about attachment and dependency, and our own unprocessed relational trauma can play a major role in maintaining overly distant or caregiving stances in therapy. (kathy-steele.com)
However, this is in contrast to past research on implicit beliefs about relationships and other attributes, which focused mainly on effort to change (e.g., Canevello & Crocker, 2011; Knee, 1998; Dweck, et al., 1995). (scirp.org)
People don't always realize this «because their own implicit beliefs feel natural. (gse.harvard.edu)