Psychologists help

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Enter projective identification and blame-shifting

• One major problem that causes  people to lose track in life is a phenomenon that originates within another person. Psychotherapy can help you figure it out. 
• It is called projective identification and is a process that allows one person to get rid of some aspect of his or her personality that is intolerable. When this occurs, you can be left feeling guilt. 
• If this has ever happened to you there is a high probability that  blame-shifting  has occurred. Psychologists can help. 

Getting stuck in someone else's bad behavior

• Quite often it is difficult to get out of the cycle of being the recipient of someone else's projections because negative patterns of behavior hard to break. Psychologists can help.
• People who can't take responsibility for their actions, are usually good at blaming others for what they have done. They tend to have a need to be seen as 'right'  or 'perfect' most of the time. Psychotherapy helps.
• Acknowledging that they made a mistake is not acceptable to them so you become the person who is defective in one way of the other. 

Helping people edit their lives is one of our major goals of psychotherapy. Psychologists believe that this can be done with the help of another person. 

• Based on the underpinnings of 'redactional identification' that was introduced in Misogyny, Projective Identification and Mentalization: Psychoanalytic, Social and Institutional Manifestations (Messina, 2019), this concept involves making individual, positive changes in life  with the help of another person who listens in an atmosphere of respect without making judgments about one’s thoughts and/or decisions. This person is also available to help a person understand how projective identification and blame-shifting have affected him or her. 

•  Redactional Identification--" What I am saying is that the new experience with a safe person allows for the development of something different. As a new state of mind emerges, it eventually becomes a conscious process that includes intention. A new element comes into play as the need for unconscious protection yields to awareness within the self-structure. This process one comes to know helps to solidify change. It is a conscious, known part of one’s being that involves more than eradicating deplorable elements of one’s being or tolerating one’s own aggression. More than 'getting rid of' or 'putting up with' or 'coming to endure' an unwanted part of the self, this new intentional process involves awareness of creating a new version of an old story (Messina, 2019)."