This book focuses on all aspects of projection and identification, and addresses the problems and perplexities of projective identification. It is based on the First Conference of the Sigmund Freud Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Foreword -- Internalization and Externalization -- The Concept of Projective Identification -- Projection and Projective Identification -- Discussion of W. W. Meissner's Paper -- Projective Identification: Clinical Aspects -- Discussion of Betty Joseph's Paper -- Projection and Projective Identification Developmental and Clinical Aspects -- Discussion of Otto F. Kemberg's Paper -- Projection, Identification, and Projective Identification: Their Relation to Political Process -- Discussion of Rafael Moses's Paper -- Dybbuk Possession and Mechanisms of Internalization and Externalization: A Case Study -- Concluding Discussion