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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Projective identification"”.
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Projective Identification and the Pressure for Self-object Symmetry: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the Work of Matte Blanco and Friston
Despite the ubiquity of ‘projective identification’ (PI) in psychoanalytic/psychodynamic discourse, the meaning of the term has evolved over time. This research addresses conceptual confusions that this evolution has produced by attempting to redescribe PI via a critical interpretive synthesis of …
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A case study exploration of the therapeutic phenomena of projective identification, transference and countertransference : a brief therapy with a patient with psychotic anxiety
This dissertation reviews the concepts of projective identification, transference and countertransference from an Object Relations theoretical perspective. The developmental mother-infant relationship is explored as a model for understanding the therapist-patient interaction in both its normal and …
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A case study exploration of the therapeutic phenomena of projective identification, transference and countertransference: a brief therapy with a patient with psychotic anxiety
This dissertation reviews the concepts of projective identification, transference and countertransference from an Object Relations theoretical perspective. The developmental mother-infant relationship is explored as a model for understanding the therapist-patient interaction in both its normal and …
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All about 'attacks' and remaining 'mindless' to feelings - psychoanalytic reflections in playtherapy
… the therapeutic process and Bion's concept of projective identification. It is maintained that these attacks illustrate Bion's psychoanalytic thoughts concerning projective identification as a primitive mode of communication of unbearable feelings which cannot be tolerated, but at the same time …
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Carrefours théorico - cliniques
… Instances of the Personnality, Projection and projective Identification.
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Altruistic kidney donation: a discourse analysis, and the client’s use of the body for unconscious communication.
… disintegration in grief. Using Freud’s theory of identification with the lost object, I suggest that her illness represented an unconscious sadistic attack on herself and the identified-with lost object. Unconscious phantasies of harming the lost loved object resulted in guilt and resistance to …
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Difficult conversations on the frontline. Managing the tensions between care and control: are communication skills enough?
… reference to Kleinian theories of enactment and projective identification with an emphasis on the internal pressures that initiate defensive manoeuvres of this kind. This is a timely and detailed study which illuminates the nuances of real practice and hopes to contribute to training initiatives …
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The Therapist's Emotional Experience: A Compass to Navigate Therapy with Eating Disordered Clients
… will be presented in relation to the concept projective identification in order to illustrate the inter-subjective nature oftherapy with a bulimic client.
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Caring for adolescents with acute and complex mental healthneeds in hospital settings : conceptualising and enabling nursingidentity, task and intervention
… of the container-contained relationship, projective identification and reverie, alongside a willingness to continuously occupy unresolvable tensions as demanding but productive spaces.The emotional and psychological impact of continuously residing in a state of tension and of maintaining …
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Primitive Defenses and Unilateral Termination of Psychotherapy: Are the Lerner Defense Scales Useful in Predicting Premature Termination in Psychotherapy?
… between combined scores measuring splitting, projective identification, and denial. Descriptively, the use of splitting was found to be significant between groups, with all individuals who used this defense terminating prematurely. These findings are discussed in more detail, and potential …
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Showing what we see: psychoanalytic vision, transparency, and linguistic pragmatics
… expanded in the future. I discuss repression and projective identification as two such possibilities.</p><p> I conclude with some of the implications and limitations of this dialogue, noting that a pragmatic perspective might be better suited to interpersonal theories of psychoanalysis. I discuss …
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Psychoanalytic Transference: Julia Kristeva’s Struggle for Maternal Identification
… transitional objects and defense mechanism of projective identification with the maternal while sublimating the loss of her primary relations in symbolic relationships. Since the unconscious fragments of the personal erupt into a poetic revolution, I read Jardine’s biography to understand …
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Testing the therapist: an analysis of the patient’s attempt to direct treatment
… of the psychoanalytic processes of acting out, projective identification, and repetition but inconsistent with these processes at a theoretical level due to differing conceptualisations of the unconscious. Clinically, testing as an unconscious process was most consistently explained in the case …