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  2. Psychological projection - Wikipedia

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    Psychological projection is a defence mechanism of alterity concerning "inside" content mistaken to be coming from the "outside" Other. [1] It forms the basis of empathy by the projection of personal experiences to understand someone else's subjective world. [1] In its malignant forms, it is a defense mechanism in which the ego defends itself ...

  3. Social projection - Wikipedia

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    Social projection. In social psychology, social projection is the psychological process through which an individual expects behaviors or attitudes of others to be similar to their own. Social projection occurs between individuals as well as across ingroup and outgroup contexts in a variety of domains. [1] Research has shown that aspects of ...

  4. Projective identification - Wikipedia

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    Projective identification is a term introduced by Melanie Klein and then widely adopted in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.Projective identification may be used as a type of defense, a means of communicating, a primitive form of relationship, or a route to psychological change; [1] used for ridding the self of unwanted parts or for controlling the other's body and mind.

  5. Shadow (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In analytical psychology, the shadow (also known as ego-dystonic complex, repressed id, shadow aspect, or shadow archetype) is an unconscious aspect of the personality that does not correspond with the ego ideal, leading the ego to resist and project the shadow, leading to a conflict with it. In short, the shadow is the self's emotional ...

  6. Projective test - Wikipedia

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    Projective tests. MeSH. D011386. In psychology, a projective test is a personality test designed to let a person respond to ambiguous stimuli, presumably revealing hidden emotions and internal conflicts projected by the person into the test. This is sometimes contrasted with a so-called "objective test" / "self-report test", which adopt a ...

  7. Thematic Apperception Test - Wikipedia

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    Thematic Apperception Test. MeSH. D013803. The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is a projective psychological test developed during the 1930s by Henry A. Murray and Christiana D. Morgan at Harvard University. Proponents of the technique assert that subjects' responses, in the narratives they make up about ambiguous pictures of people, reveal ...

  8. Ego psychology - Wikipedia

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    Ego psychology is a school of psychoanalysis rooted in Sigmund Freud 's structural id-ego-superego model of the mind. An individual interacts with the external world as well as responds to internal forces. Many psychoanalysts use a theoretical construct called the ego to explain how that is done through various ego functions.

  9. Projection - Wikipedia

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    Projection (relational algebra), a type of unary operation in relational algebra. Projective geometry, the study of geometric properties that are invariant with respect to projective transformations. Projective module, a generalization of a free module. Projective object, a further generalization, in category theory.