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Kile M. Ortigo, "Beyond the Narrow Life: A Guide to Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration" (Synergetic Press, 2021)

New Books in Psychoanalysis

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The Psychological Notion of Projection

By definition, and sort of as a follow on Kyle I'm curious about how the psychological notion of projection fits into either the shadow work or your larger framework. Projection is a defense mechanism, a protective mechanism that is usually pretty much by definition unconscious. It's one that we all really have at some point in our lives and it continues to be part of that bigger toolkit that we have. So the idea of healing from these projection or finding alternatives to projection is like with other less mature or sophisticated or helpful defense mechanisms is to make them conscious and then find alternatives to working through that.

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