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21 lut 2023 · Idealization and devaluation are defense mechanisms that help a person manage their anxiety as well as internal or external stresses. While this subconscious protection system can be found in a few personality disorders, it is most often associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD).
Learn about the psychoanalytic concept of splitting, which involves viewing people or events as either all good or all bad. Explore the theories of Freud, Kohut and Kernberg on idealization and devaluation in child development and narcissism.
The authors propose a Bayesian model of splitting, a tendency to rigidly categorize objects as either entirely “Bad” or “Good,” rather than to flexibly learn dispositions along a continuous scale. The model captures a computational structure common to both cognitive and psychoanalytic theories of splitting, and can be fitted to empirical data.
20 maj 2020 · Idealization is ubiquitous in human cognition, and so is the inclination to be puzzled by it: what to make of ideal gas, infinitely large populations, homo economicus, perfectly just society, known to violate matters of fact?
A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships, which may be characterized by vacillations between idealization and devaluation, typically associated with both strong desire for and fear of closeness and intimacy.
Borderline personality disorder is characterized by (1) intense and unstable emotions, (2) behavioral impulsivity, (3) a tendency to view others as uncaring and rejecting, (4) a pattern of intense interpersonal relationships characterized by extremes of idealization and devaluation, and (5) negative self-concept or a lack of a coherent sense of ...
A key model feature is that phases of devaluation and/or idealization are consolidated by rationally attributing counter-evidence to external factors. For example, when another person is idealized, their less-than-perfect behavior is attributed to unfavorable external circumstances.
