Projective identification is a defense mechanism, meaning it’s a way of protecting the way we see ourselves from contradictory information. To understand projective identification, it helps to ...

Petriglieri, Gianpiero, and Mark Stein. "The Unwanted Self: Projective Identification in Leaders' Identity Work." Organization Studies 33, no. 9 (September 2012): 1217–1235.

Misogyny, Projective Identification, and Mentalization tells the story of women who have been erased, dismissed, and devalued, while putting forth a hypothesis about why the phenomenon occurs and what ...

Ely, R., Sanaz Mobasseri, and C. Chu. "Defending White Hegemonic Masculinity: A Test of the Projective Identification Hypothesis." Paper presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies ...