Projective and Introjective Identification and the Use of the Therapist's Self

by Jill Savege Scharff and Alexander Crosby

Book Overview

In this landmark work on object relations, Dr. Jill Savage Scharff addresses the psychological processes of projective and introjective identification and countertransference. She carefully traces the debates about projective identification_the neurotic versus psychotic arguments and the intrapsychic versus interpersonal views. She holds that disagreements stem from unrecognized shifts in meaning of the term identification and unacknowledged differences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876685300
• ISBN13: 9780876685303
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"