ABSTRACT
Picture yourself at the cinema. The image you are watching on the screen before you did not originate on that screen, it was thrown onto it from the film in the projector behind you. In essence, this describes the psychological process of projection whereby an attitude, trait or quality is assigned to another (individual, group or object) and in the process is disowned by the projector(s). In the previous point, I described a particular manifestation of a process where the client splits himself. In projection, splitting also occurs but this time the aspect is thrown out onto ‘the screen’ of the environment. Simply stated, projection is seeing in others what is present in myself.
