Blogging about projective identification is a bit daunting because not everyone agrees about the definition or what projective identification actually means. Like any hypothetical construct, it can ...

Projective identification is a defense mechanism, meaning it’s a way of protecting the way we see ourselves from contradictory information. To understand projective identification, it helps to ...

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