Projective identification and countertransference

Abstract

A lot of stories has started off with "a long time ago" and when I came to write this paper, I thought again how the start of my interest in this topic is probably deep within the shadow of my own psyche. As I am a twin in the middle of a family of six children, I could imagine there would be, at an unconscious level, as well as the conscious, many times in my life when I have wanted to pull someone into my reality and/or be pulled into theirs.