Denial, Projection, and the Empathic Wall

Abstract

affect theory / psychoanalytic concepts / affective transmission / empathy / the empathic wall / infant research / denial and projection / interpersonal aspects of denial / projective identification / clinical illustrations / substance abuse and disturbances of the empathic wall / integration with other theories primary-process thinking is right hemisphere, whereas secondary process is a function of the left hemisphere left hemisphere processing seems to be dominant in the human and to exert control over the right side most of our work as healers involves the facilitation of such dialectic between logical and nonlogical systems of thinking / "emotion" plays some role in higher cortical function, it does not originate in the neocortex (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)