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Explains the patient's identification in treatment with a significant other for purposes of mastering traumatic experiences."This book is a clear, constructive, and instructive treatment of an important observation. It is also an example of clinical sophistication of the very highest order." –Jeffrey J. Andresen "A major strength of this book is that it addresses the difficult situations that arise in treatment when projection is at play. The difficult feelings aroused in the projective introjective interplay are explored and the therapist is cautioned repeatedly against using untimely interpretations rather than therapeutic containment and holding feelings `in reverie.' The patient needs the space to grow and Ogden is quite sensitive to this process." –Janet Schumacher FinellA Jason Aronson Book
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" T w o things you should know about this book: the first is that Dr. Ogden illuminates some ofthe experiences with patients that we must bear in order to be of help. The second is that Dr. Ogden's writing offers us a sense of the attitudes and aptitudes that are the attainment of such extraordinary clinicians as Elvin Semrad. This latter aspect of the book makes it particularly special, for to deliver in print the feeling and spirit of the finest clinical thinking is a remarkable achievement. The gift is not a common one." —J.J. Andresen, M.D., in Contemporary Psychiatry "This very interesting book broadens the concept of projective identification and includes rich clinical material illustrating the technique involved in the use of the concept. The major clinical contribution of this book is the focus on the patient's presentation in treatment of an identification with a significant other for purposes of mastering traumatic experiences. The patient's attempts to enmesh the therapist in a role enactment or actualization are illustrated in a number of clinical examples. To Ogden, projective identification involves an interpersonal enactment or actualization. Unconscious feelings are evoked in the other through the process of projection and splitting. . . . "Ogden proceeds to discuss the concept from its origination by Klein through its use by others, including Bion, Searles, and Langs. He addresses interpretation versus silent containment, and the importance of containing the patient's projections. His chapter, 'Issues of Technique,' provides rich clinical material that illustrates the concept. "Ogden's thinking on projective identification integrates Klein's, Bion's, and Grotstein's thinking with that of Winnicott. Containment and the holding environment play a large part in Ogden's technical recommendations. Throughout the book he cautions against untimely interpretations that serve more often to ease therapeutic anxiety and distress, and that force material back into the patient that should be held 'in reverie' (Bion) for the patient." —Janet Schumacher Finell, in Psychoanalytic Review
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Credits Kje,-^ Chapter 2 On projective identification. International Journal of PsychoAnalysis 60:357-373, 1979. Chapter 5 A developmental view of identifications resulting from maternal impingements. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 7:486-587, 1978. Chapter 6 Projective identification in psychiatric hospital treatment. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 45:317-333, 1981. Chapter 7 On the nature of schizophrenic conflict. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 61:513-533, 1980. Chapter 8 Treatment of the schizophrenic state of nonexperience. Written for original publicatio