Posted by Sigismund on June 29, 2007, at 18:38:49
In reply to Re: conflict » Dr. Bob, posted by obsidian on June 29, 2007, at 0:20:40
I really should be able to say something sensible about this.
How many times have I tried to get the hang of projective identification (failed), not to speak of all the time doing/talking about/? this in therapy.
I imagine the idea is that bits of ourselves are put into other people more or less compulsively. In therapy this is made explicit when the T says something like 'since you are not able to deal with such and such, I will hold it for you until you are ready to take it back'.
One problem I had here was that I have an overliteral mind and imagined this quite materially.The standard formula used is of the good-enough mother who is able to accept the difficult parts of her child and tolerate the ambivalence until the kid can do so himself.
Which I guess you have heard before.
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