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(1961). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 42:86-96

Introjection, Reprojection, and Hallucination in the Interaction Between Schizophrenic Patient and Therapist

Norman Cameron

Freud has pointed out that psychotic persons are sometimes able to communicate their experiences with aspects of internal reality that are ordinarily inaccessible to normal and neurotic persons (4). This paper presents material from the intensive, psycho-analytically oriented therapy of a patient, over a period of three and a half years, which describes such experiences with exceptional clarity. These include the regressive reprojection of primitive superego functions in the form of an hallucinated mother image, the hallucination of the therapist under conditions of stress, and the subsequent introjection of a therapist image, followed by its apparent assimilation into a new ego-superego integration. After briefly describing the patient, I shall present clinical evidence of the incorporation and use of therapist attitudes, similar to that reported by Hoedemaker (6), but with examples also from dreams, one of them somnambulistic. I shall then go on to a lengthier account of the vi

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