“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.

Projective identification is a defense mechanism, meaning it’s a way of protecting the way we see ourselves from contradictory information. To understand projective identification, it helps to ...

Projective identification stems from the work of Melanie Klein and refers to the subjects' split off of part of their own identity and the projection of this part into an object or a person.5 The ...

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 ...

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