Before revision: Otto Kernberg has used the term "bridging interventions" for the therapist's attempts to straddle and contain contradictory and compartmentalized components of the patient's mind.Salman Akhtar, Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2009) p. 42 Vulnerability Compartmentalization Compartmentalization can be positive, negative, and integrated depending on the context and person.
After revision: Otto Kernberg has used the term "bridging interventions" for the therapist's attempts to straddle and contain contradictory and compartmentalized components of the patient's mind.Salman Akhtar, Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2009) p. 42 Vulnerability Compartmentalization can be positive, negative, and integrated depending on the context and person.