Correlative Aspects of Introjective and Projective Mechanisms

W. W. MEISSNERAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 131, Number 2

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.2.176

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The author discusses the correlative nature of projection and introjection, their early roles in development and differentiation, and their later defensive uses. He describes how, in paranoid states, the interplay between projecting and introjecting leads to conflicted ambivalence between preserving and annihilating significant objects.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 131 • Number 2 • February 1974

Pages: 176 - 180

PubMed: 4809045

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Published in print: February 1974

Published online: 1 April 2006

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W. W. MEISSNER

Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Faculty Member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, and Staff Psychiatrist, Massachusetts Mental Health Center and the Cambridge Hospital

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Correlative Aspects of Introjective and Projective Mechanisms

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