A correction to my reference in my previous message:
Garelli, J. C. Evolutionary Considerations Regarding the Adaptive Status
of Depression
Allen Esterson
London
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Mike Lee wrote 21 February:
I believe this [introjection] is essentially the opposite of projection, and is
similar to identification. It is taking something external, be it an object or an
aspect of another person's personality, and making an internalization of it. For the
infant, the first
Regarding introjection, from Ronald Comer's Abnormal Psychology
4e:
According to Freud and Abraham, a series of unconscious
processes is set in
motion when a loved one dies. Unable to acept the
loss, mourners at first regress
to the oral stage of development, the period of total
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From: Donald Kober [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 11:21 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
Subject: Freudian Defense mechanism
Dear TIPS,
A student is doing work on Freudian defense mechanisms.
He
Dear TIPS,
A student is doing work on Freudian defense mechanisms. He
would like information on Introjection. An example would also be helpful.
Can anybody help???
Thanks,
Don Kober
I believe this is essentially the opposite of projection, and is similar
to identification. It is taking something external, be it an object or
an aspect of another person's personality, and making an internalization
of it. For the infant, the first external object to be introjected
might be
Cameron and Rychlak (Personality Development and Psychopathology, 1985)
distiguish between three forms or meanings of internalization (pp. 50-51):
1) Incorporation - actually taking into the body (either real or
imaginary in fantasy) (I once had a schizophrenic patient who was very
attached to a
