Projective identification and psychotherapeutic technique

Bibliography: p. 215-228.. Includes index.. Responsibility Thomas H. Ogden.

1 Introduction. 2 The concept of projective identification. 3 Issues of technique. 4 Contrasting psychoanalytic approaches. 5 The developmental impact of excessive maternal projective identification. 6 Psychiatric hospital treatment. 7 The nature of schizophrenic conflict. 8 Treatment of the schizophrenic state of nonexperience

',,,This term refers to the psychological mechanisms of unconscious projective fantasies in associaton with the evocation of congruent feelings in others, that is, the way in which one person makes use of another person to experience and contain an aspect of himself. The projector has the primariily unconscious fantasy of getting rid of an unwanted or endangered part of himself (including internal objects) and of depositing that part into another person in a powerfully controlling way....there is an interpersonal interaction by means of whiich the recipient is pressured to think, feel, and behave in a manner congruent with the ejected feeling and the self- and object-representations embodied in the projective fantasy. The recipient is pressured to engage in an identification with a specific, disowned aspect of the projector....'

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