APA Dictionary of Psychology
depersonification
- n.
- treatment of another person as something other than the unique individual that they are. For example, parents may treat their child as an extension of themselves, which leads to the child having a distorted sense of self.
- in psychoanalytic theory, a stage in the maturation of the superego that follows introjection of parental imagoes and leads to integration of parental values as abstract ideas. —depersonify vb.
Updated on 11/15/2023
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