projective indentificatio

[Terry Makin]

Hi Adam and grouptalk
I am interested that you are exploring this idea.  At times I have worked
with people who this happens around (as a psychiatric nurse running groups
for people with 'treatment resistant depression', or other ways of saying
Axis 2 diagnoses).  I am carefully not saying these people use this defense
because I think it is unconscious.  I do think of it as attempts to
communicate inner states which cannot be expressed consciously, verbally.  
One of the things I have had to do in my training is become more conscious
of my doubling, when and how I do it, because if I am not conscious then I
come away feeling jangling and fragmenting.  I need to sit with, be with,
provide a safe anchor, find a role of Loving Be-holder (in both senses of
the word - to perceive and to hold) when I am working with someone whose
inner world is incomprehensible and terrifying to them.
Cheers
Jean 
Jean Mehrtens
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Viewbank  3084
Melbourne
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