“At times, I could murder him!” says Alan, complaining about his lazy son who’s refusing to go to school. Amy is about to say goodbye to the class of 6-year-olds she’s been teaching for over a year.

This post is in response to How a Narcissist Conducts Psychological Warfare By Erin Leonard Ph.D. The view that projective identification is one of the cruel weapons—albeit an unconscious weapon—in ...

Petriglieri, Gianpiero, and Mark Stein. "The Unwanted Self: Projective Identification in Leaders' Identity Work." Organization Studies 33, no. 9 (September 2012): 1217–1235.

Misogyny, Projective Identification, and Mentalization tells the story of women who have been erased, dismissed, and devalued, while putting forth a hypothesis about why the phenomenon occurs and what ...