“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 ...

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 ...