“Winnicott talks about how ‘mothers do in one way or another identify themselves with the baby growing within them, and in this way they achieve a very powerful sense of what the baby needs. This is a projective identification’ (1976:53).” — Ved P. Varma Copy Share Image
“He came to believe that, in addition to getting rid of parts of the self, projective identification was sometimes the only way in which some very fragmented patients could communicate. The problem lay in recognising, understanding and making sense of… — Ved P. Varma Copy Share Image
