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Projective Identification, Unconscious Communication, and the Right Brain - Test
by Allan N. Schore, Ph.D.

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1. The concept of projective identification was originally created by:	Help
Sigmund Freud John Bowlby Melanie Klein Carl Jung

2. Projective identification is currently conceptualized as:	Help
a linguistic mechanism a conscious communication of thoughts a nonverbal communication only used in human infancy an unconscious communication of affect

3. According to Chiron's research, the right hemisphere is dominant for:	Help
The first year of life The first two years of life The first three years of life The first four years of life

4. Which defense is associated with projective identification?	Help
Dissociation Repression Sublimation Disavowal

5. The infant's initial response to relational trauma is:	Help
Dissociation Conservation-withdrawal Increased parasympathetic autonomic reactivity Sympathetic autonomic hyperarousal

6. Dissociation has been described as;	Help
The escape when there is no escape A last resort defensive strategy A dead spot in the infant's subjective experience All of the above

7. Neurobiological models of projective identification suggest that

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It represents a very rapid sequence of reciprocal affective transactions within the intersubjective field co-constructed by the patient and therapist
It occurs within seconds, and only involves mind-to-mind communications
It represents a unidirectional process, wherein one person evacuates intolerable negative emotions into another
It involves the patient's transference, and not the therapist's countertransference reactions

8. Freud described the state in which one person receives the unconscious communications of another as	Help
Free floating responsiveness Reverie Transfer of affect Evenly suspended attention

9. The right hemisphere is dominant for:	Help
Communicative pragmatics The perception of emotional words Recognizing the emotional tone of the voice All of the above

10. According to Binder and Strupp a major obstacle to treatment success is	Help
Countertransference Transference Negative emotion Positive emotion

11. It is now thought that enactments	Help
Are mediated by nonverbal unconscious relational behaviors Can be prevented by correct interpretations Are rare events in therapy Are due to technical mistakes of the therapist

12. Which of the following statements about defensive projective identification in false?

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Interpretation of projective identification is harmful
Defensive projective identification does not represent a literal evacuation or expelling out into an other, so that the negative state no longer exists within
At the moment of a defensive projective identification the patient's dissociated affect is subjectively deepened and communicated
At the moment of defensive projection the patient dissociates

13. According to Putnam dissociative switches are manifest in	Help
Changes in verbal behavior Changes in facial expression Patient rationalizations Changes in patient content

14. The concept of rupture and repair emerged from	Help
Developmental research Psychiatric research Couples therapy Chaos theory

15. Within the therapeutic alliance the safe holding environment	Help
Is created by the therapist's interpretations Is created by the therapist's reassurances Includes both physiologic and psychological holding Is never ruptured

16. The right hemisphere is dominant for:	Help
Emotional communication Affective empathy Primary process cognition All of the above

17. The essential step for co-creating a holding environment is the clinician's ability:	Help
To detect, recognize, monitor, and autoregulate stressful alterations in her bodily state To avoid therapeutic mistakes To offer a defensive interpretation To apologize to the patient

18. The importance of the therapist's "partial acting out" is described by :	Help
Brenman Pick Sander Beebe Klein

19. According to Stern the patient's "narrative" model is:	Help
Generated by her left hemisphere Is shaped by the therapist's interpretations Is the verbal rendition of a nonverbal internal working model All of the above

20. In order to metabolize the stress state induced by the patient's affective communication the therapist must;	Help
Create a successful cognitive strategy for suppressing the emotion Interpret the patient's unconscious wish Avoid the somatic countertransference Physically contain the patient's disavowed experience

21. Recent neuroscience studies indicate that the implicit self is located in:	Help
Left parietal areas Right prefrontal areas Temporal lobes of both hemispheres Broca's and Wernicke's areas

22. The orbitofrontal regulatory system is intimately involved in:	Help
The generation of an "emotional hunch" The construction of "cognitive-emotional interactions" The processing of affect-related meanings All of the above

23. The orbitofrontal system has been equated with Freud's:	Help
Preconscious Unconscious Id Ego

24. According to Basch the therapist sometimes acts as the patient's	Help
Frontal cortex Hippocampus Corpus callosum Broca's area

Projective Identification, Unconscious Communication, and the Right Brain - Test by Allan N. Schore, Ph.D.

Projective Identification, Unconscious Communication, and the Right Brain - Test
by Allan N. Schore, Ph.D.