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Aspects of Extra- and Intro-Punitive Expression in Mental Illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

G. A. Foulds
Affiliation:
Runwell Hospital, Wickford, Essex
T. M. Caine
Affiliation:
Runwell Hospital, Wickford, Essex
M. A. Creasy
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Bedford College, University of London

Extract

The terms extrapunitive and intropunitive were introduced by Rosenzweig (1938) to denote two of the possible ways in which an individual might react to frustration or blame. He defined the extrapunitive reaction as: “When the individual tends to blame the external world, reacts with anger and hostility, and psychologically defends himself by what the psycho-analyst describes as the mechanism of projection. An ego which fears blaming itself thus gains security by blaming others instead”.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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