Before revision: Psychoanalytic views Psychoanalysis considers that whereas isolation separates thoughts from feeling, compartmentalization separates different (incompatible) cognitions from each other.Nancy McWilliams, Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (2011) p. 135-6 As a secondary, intellectual defense, it may be linked to rationalization.McWilliams, p. 200 and p. 136 It is also related to the phenomenon of neurotic typing, whereby everything must be classified into mutually exclusive and watertight categories.Otto Fenichel, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (1946) p. 286 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 may lead to hidden vulnerabilities in those who use it as a major defense mechanism.J.
After revision: related to self-organization and self-esteemPsychoanalytic views Psychoanalysis considers that whereas isolation separates thoughts from feeling, compartmentalization separates different (incompatible) cognitions from each other.Nancy McWilliams, Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (2011) p. 135-6 As a secondary, intellectual defense, it may be linked to rationalization.McWilliams, p. 200 and p. 136 It is also related to the phenomenon of neurotic typing, whereby everything must be classified into mutually exclusive and watertight categories.Otto Fenichel, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (1946) p. 286 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 may lead to hidden vulnerabilities in those who use it as a major defense mechanism.J.