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#567 - Dr Jonathan Shedler - 14 Psychoanalytical Concepts To Understand Yourself

Modern Wisdom

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Exactly. That's Splitting, Right?

Think of it as a kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Precisely what I had in my mind yet. People who do this tend to see the world in very black and white terms. So, other people are good or bad caricatures. They're heroes or they're villains. Oh, that's splitting, right? That is splitting. Yes. And you had all along. It's confirmation. Right. The way it works, it goes hand in hand with another defense: You treat them so badly that they finally react against it and become angry and aggressive. Because they've got no choice, they've been pushed into it. They're getting treated like a punching

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