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Originally Posted by MsLady
"Individuals who have not achieved object constancy /object permanence still relate to reality using the defensive of splitting. ... They cannot tolerate ambivalence (mixed feelings) hence the term, splitting. The individual who causes the frustration is seen as all bad, and if pleasurable, then all good."
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“they can not tolerate ambivalence” - interesting. I do not have NPD, however a shrink in my forest wrote in my notes “she is already very ambivalent about this therapist” ... I could and can “tolerate ambivalence” I believe..
I also think the words “individuals who have not achieved object constancy (etc) are not the optimal words to use and sound judgmental. The little that I have read in the “literature” about different disorders is mostly not to my taste...