Projection, Identification, Projective Identification

by Joseph Sandler

Overview

This book focuses on all aspects of projection and identification, and addresses the problems and perplexities of projective identification. It is based on the First Conference of the Sigmund Freud Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780946439409
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/1988
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sandler, Joseph

Table of Contents

Foreword — Internalization and Externalization — The Concept of Projective Identification — Projection and Projective Identification — Discussion of W. W. Meissner’s Paper — Projective Identification: Clinical Aspects — Discussion of Betty Joseph’s Paper — Projection and Projective Identification Developmental and Clinical Aspects — Discussion of Otto F. Kemberg’s Paper — Projection, Identification, and Projective Identification: Their Relation to Political Process — Discussion of Rafael Moses’s Paper — Dybbuk Possession and Mechanisms of Internalization and Externalization: A Case Study — Concluding Discussion

Editorial Reviews

"Sandler and his collaborators are to be congratulated for having produced a comprehensive, authorities, and scholarly overview of the complex and controversial realm encompassed within the rubrics of "Projection, Identification, Projective Identification". The range of viewpoint is expectedly wide, but always informative. The concept of projective identification has been extracted from its specifically Kleinian origin and linkage and explored for its relevance within various major psychoanalytic theoretical frameworks. And a special achievement: the whole volume is at all times lucid and interesting."

Robert S. Wallerstein

"The book is the product of a symposium in which a group of eminent analysts gave unusually lucid and scholarly papers, each followed by an illuminating and enriching discussion. Dr. Sandler, in his introductory paper and in his organizing role, masterfully centers the issues and even manages to introduce humour. No simple answers are given, but through careful scholarship and clinical illustration the problems are clarified and the reader may reach his own conclusions. Every analyst interested in the newer and clinical propositions of our analytic discourse will benefit from study of this work."

Arnold M. Cooper

"Addressing the problems and perplexities of projective identification, Sandler meticulously examines the interrelated issues of theory and therapy. He achieves a very illuminating, in depth exploration and exposition of an important and controversial analytic concept."

Harold P. Blum

"Addressing the problems and perplexities of projective identification, Sandler meticulously examines the interrelated issues of theory and therapy. He achieves a very illuminating, in depth exploration and exposition of an important and controversial analytic concept."

"The book is the product of a symposium in which a group of eminent analysts gave unusually lucid and scholarly papers, each followed by an illuminating and enriching discussion. Dr. Sandler, in his introductory paper and in his organizing role, masterfully centers the issues and even manages to introduce humour. No simple answers are given, but through careful scholarship and clinical illustration the problems are clarified and the reader may reach his own conclusions. Every analyst interested in the newer and clinical propositions of our analytic discourse will benefit from study of this work."

"Sandler and his collaborators are to be congratulated for having produced a comprehensive, authorities, and scholarly overview of the complex and controversial realm encompassed within the rubrics of "Projection, Identification, Projective Identification". The range of viewpoint is expectedly wide, but always informative. The concept of projective identification has been extracted from its specifically Kleinian origin and linkage and explored for its relevance within various major psychoanalytic theoretical frameworks. And a special achievement: the whole volume is at all times lucid and interesting."

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