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Psychotherapy in an Inpatient Ward
Published in Meidan Turel, Michael Siglag, Alexander Grinshpoon, Clinical Psychology in the Mental Health Inpatient Setting, 2019
Introjection perpetuates the experience of trauma. It is through the process of introjection that personality distortions can take place, when identification with the aggressor becomes habitual, a way of life (Frankel, 2002). Introjection is used to manage vulnerable feelings by providing the victim with a sense of control and a feeling of becoming powerful as opposed to passive and powerless, namely, by the victim becoming an aggressor himself.
Mapping
Published in R. D. Laing, The Politics of the Family, 2018
Suppose I projected my mother onto my wife. She takes on the ø-value of my mother for me. That is projection. However (cf. the Clarks, above) I may or may not induce her to embody my mother. The operation of inducing her to embody my projection is what I am calling induction. Projection is done by one person as his own experience of the other. Induction is done by one person to the other’s experience. We have actually no word for the transformation of the other’s experience under such induction. Introjection is an operation by me on my experience, which is identical in principle with projection, the only difference being that the locations of the transference are different, namely: from any region of what is taken to be not-me, or not-self, or not that with which I identify myself (e.g. my family), onto what I take to be ‘me’, ‘self’, or that with which I identify myself.
Questions and Answers
Published in David Browne, Brenda Wright, Guy Molyneux, Mohamed Ahmed, Ijaz Hussain, Bangaru Raju, Michael Reilly, MRCPsych Paper I One-Best-Item MCQs, 2017
David Browne, Brenda Wright, Guy Molyneux, Mohamed Ahmed, Ijaz Hussain, Bangaru Raju, Michael Reilly
Answer: E. Turning against the self is an ego defence mechanism seen in depression. It was initially espoused in Freud’s Mourning and Melancholia. The individual turns unacceptable impulses and aggression towards others to himself. Introjection is an immature defence in which the qualities of an external object are internalised and subsequently identified with. The rest are not ego defence mechanisms. [S. pp. 220, 556–7]
Source-Orientation and Avoidance/Approach-Orientation are Important Components of Introjected Regulation for Leisure-Time Physical Activity
Published in Behavioral Medicine, 2021
Kimberly R. More, L. Alison Phillips
A second limitation is the use of a convenience sample of college participants. Although it is still clearly important to understand the relation between physical activity regulation and physical activity in college students, a wealth of research has shown that results obtained from this sample do not necessarily generalize to the broader population.38 In light of this, it is possible that the delineation between approach and avoidance types and self- and other-orientation types of introjection are not useful in other groups. Future research should focus on conceptually replicating the present research using different samples (e.g., adolescents, young adults not enrolled in college, and older adults). Replicating this research while sampling from different populations will reveal if differentiating types of introjected regulation is universally beneficial in a Western population. Additionally, future research should examine whether the discussed introjected regulation subtypes are differentially related to psychological and physical well-being.
From the urge to see one’s own blood to the urge to drink it: Can hemomania be specified as an impulse control disorder? Two case reports
Published in Journal of Addictive Diseases, 2021
Ali Kandeğer, Fatih Ekici, Yavuz Selvi
Individuals with hemomania often show a pattern similar to those with trichotillomania, which had been classified with impulse control disorders prior to the DSM-5. Individuals with trichotillomania can evidence progressive behaviors such as pulling out, examining, sniffing and eventually eating their hair.13 According to the psychodynamic perspective, trichotillomania symbolizes a failure in introjection in primary relationships.14 Introjection of an object (e.g., hair, blood) eliminated from the self may be an attempt to compensate for or make sense of the failure of introjection in childhood experiences and relations. When people can relax only by seeing their own blood, this process can progress to drinking blood several times a day.
Speaking the Unspoken: Understanding Internalized Racial Oppression from the Perspective of Black Women Psychotherapists
Published in Smith College Studies in Social Work, 2022
Other defenses involved in this process are that of introjection and identification. Introjection occurs when a person internalizes the actions, ideas or voices of others (Goldstein, 1995; Sandler & Freud, 1985). Commonly associated with the internalization of external authority, introjection is defined as “taking in of another person into the self” (Goldstein, 1995, p. 79), in an attempt to avoid the expression of strong emotions associated with the object or person. In application to internalized racial oppression, the introjection of hostile or negative feelings may often result in self-deprecating attitudes, thoughts and behaviors (Goldstein, 2001).