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- 1. a person's supposed original or true self, especially when regarded as concealed in adulthood: "you may still be acting out the pain suffered by your inner child"
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In popular psychology and analytical psychology, a person's childlike aspect.
In some schools of popular psychology and analytical psychology, the inner child is an individual's childlike aspect. It includes what a person learned as a child before puberty. The inner child is often conceived as a semi-independent subpersonality subordinate to the waking conscious mind. The term has therapeutic applications in counseling and health settings. The concept became known to a broa... Wikipedia