PubMed Health⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

P M Ployé

Publications and source records attributed to P M Ployé.

3 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1984

A note on two important aspects of Kleinian theory. 'Projective identification' and 'idealisation'.

The concept of 'projective identification', introduced by Melanie Klein and extensively used by her followers, is still held by many to be highly controversial and difficult to understand. Great importance is also attached by Kleinian workers to what they describe as the infant's early use of 'idealisation' as a defence against anxiety. A hypothesis is presented according to which both mechanisms could be seen as the continuation or persistence, in mental form and in early post-natal life, of some of the ways in which the unborn child could be said to relate to the mother physically during the last few months of intrauterine life.

Adult↗
PubMed1977

On some difficulties of inpatient individual psychoanalytically oriented therapy.

I wish in this paper to examine some of the difficulties a therapist can encounter in the treatment of psychologically ill patients by individual psychoanalytically oriented therapy within the setting of a hospital community, particularly when he is responsible not only for the therapy itself but for the total management of the patient outside of sessions as well. I think that many of my colleagues in the same position will have had similar experiences to my own, but I cannot generalize too much and must be held solely responsible for the difficulties encountered as well as for my account of them.

Hospitalization↗