Abstract

The concept of projective identification and its clinical utility are illustrated by material from long-term open-ended psychotherapy groups in a psychiatric day hospital programme. Projective identification is discussed in relationship to the impact of trauma, in an attempt to further clarify the roles of trauma and intense affects (particularly rage) in the regressive defensive activation of projective identifications within groups and individuals.

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