Splitting and projective identification (Classical psychoanalysis and its applications)

James S. Grotstein

ISBN 10: 0876683480 / ISBN 13: 9780876683484

Editore: Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers, 1981

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1981 1st printing, VG/VG- DJ in Mylar, dustjacket has rubs at spine ends and rub near middle of spine, spine colour slightly faded, very short tear & chip on rear panel, in new Mylar, top rear corner bumped, no markings found, top edge of textblock dyed red. Codice articolo k0711

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Titolo: Splitting and projective identification (...

Casa editrice: Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers

Data di pubblicazione: 1981

Legatura: hardcover

Condizione: Very Good

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A demonstration that the mental mechanism known as splitting has too long been neglected illustrating that it is one of the two most fundamental aspects of normal and abnormal personality formation (the other being projective identification). The text suggests that its clinical importance in psychodynamic understanding and technique is in danger only of underestimation. The author takes the position that splitting occurs in all processes of normal discrimination and differentiation on the one hand and of normal and abnormal defence techniques on the other. Moreover, the reader is shown that people exist in splits to a far greater extent than we have believed. In Part two, Dr Grotstein explains and demonstrates that projective identification is the primary architect, along with splitting, of internal objects and other object representations. His view is that projective identification is the principal component of human communication and expressiveness and is a major factor in all defence mechanisms insofar as it facilitates splitting. The borderline patient cannot be understood without understanding the mechanism of splitting and projective identification.