Projective identification, countertransference, and hospital treatment.
The principal purpose of this article is to illustrate the pivotal function of projective identification within the therapeutic milieu of the hospital. A detailed description of crises in the treatment of two patients undergoing long-term inpatient psychiatric treatment is given. These patients suffered from very different psychiatric illnesses; hence, their cases illustrate some features of hospital treatment that cut across different types and degrees of severity of psychopathology.
D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003379:Countertransference; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011385:Projection; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy