Re:perpetrator introjects

I don't have the citations in front of me here. I'll try to get my hands on them for you, or others will post their references.

Most of the books on dissociative disorders discuss perpetrator introjects if only briefly. Watkins and Watins in their 1997 book Ego States Theory and Therapy, Frank Putnam in his 1986 book, Colin Ross, in his 2nd edition of his book Dissociative Identity Disorder:Diagnosis, Clinical features and Treatment of Multiple Personality, and others. Also, books on psychodynamic theory such as Mardi Horowitz Theory of Psychodynamics discuss parental introjects though not necessarily perpetrator introjects. It is the toughest concept for most clients to get -- that the dreaded perpetrator lives on in their head and is therefore an aspect of self -- that's the bad news. The good news -- unlike the external perpetrator, the internal one is modifiable.

That will have to do for now.....

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