Hate, projective identification, and the Psychotherapist's struggle
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Published on: June 3, 2013
1San Francisco Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, California 94979, USA.
Abstract:
The relationship between projective identification and aggression is explored through case material in which the psychotherapist felt strongly influenced by the patient's projections. Through a variety of interpersonal and intrapsychic dynamics, the patient evoked an unconscious and conscious sense of hate in the psychotherapist that emerged in a countertransference dream.
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