psychic retreat
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Mental mechanisms.
borderline state, denial, depressive position, displacement, dissociation, fantasy, intellectualisation, Melanie Klein, mental mechanisms, paranoid-schizoid position, projection, projective identification, psychic retreat, psychoanalysis, rationalisation, reaction formation, regression, repression, schizoid fantasy, Sigmund Freud, splitting, sublimation, suppression, Understanding motor events: a neurophysiological studyMental mechanisms are situational. Mental mechanisms do not have indices of test-retest reliability or of inter-rater reliability. The distributions of mental mechanisms by age, gender, social class, and intelligence are not established.Mental mechanisms may be unspoken, or may be confined to a consultation during which money changes hands. Once other people are involved, the possibility…
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To be or not to be, that is the question.To be in a world of one’s own, rather than not to be in the world of another, that is an answer. The consulting room is a place to be, and a place to remember having been, the more so with the therapist’s salutation: “Having reflected…
To be or not to be. 