Splitting

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Splitting

Splitting can simplify unbearable ambivalence but may destabilise relationships, teams, and self-experience.

DefenceInterpersonalAffect+1

Look for

Sudden idealisation or devaluation

Patient language

“They are the only one who understands me”

Formulation use

Splitting can organise otherwise overwhelming mixed feelings, but it may make alliance ruptures more likely.

Open mechanism

Treat each mechanism as a hypothesis, not a diagnosis. Check the person’s context, culture, development, mental state, risk, and alternative explanations, then revise the formulation when new evidence does not fit.

1 mechanism

Splitting

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Top match for your searchReview fit and alternatives

Splitting

Splitting can simplify unbearable ambivalence but may destabilise relationships, teams, and self-experience.

DefenceInterpersonalAffect+1

Look for

Sudden idealisation or devaluation

Patient language

“They are the only one who understands me”

Formulation use

Splitting can organise otherwise overwhelming mixed feelings, but it may make alliance ruptures more likely.

Open mechanism