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This is the psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I am the Burper and I am also a licensed therapist and a professor.

And today I thought I would just respond to your emails, particularly the patron emails. Another reason to become patron.

Okay, patron Cody emailed in. This is a few months ago and patron Cody says, I am a child and adolescent psychiatrist in New Orleans and I'm also a patron of the podcast.

I'm working on a paper on projective identification and I have a question.

You mentioned that there are three ways in which it can be brought about.

One, by choosing people who have those qualities, two, by choosing someone susceptible to the identification and three, by making someone identify this way.

I was wondering if you had a reference source for this that I could review.

Well, patron Cody, I realize it's probably four months since you emailed me this and if you're still working on this paper, then you are very similar to me because when I go down a rabbit hole, I spend years writing some papers.

I just recently finished a paper on supervision and I thought I was just going to spend, I don't know, a couple of days and I ended up spending two months.

I spent probably, I don't know, let's just take a conservative guess of about 30 to 40 hours per week for two months.

I spent just so much time and it was actually really enjoyable because I'd never really done a systematic review of supervision and I'm going to actually make a patron only episode, premium episode about supervision for everybody.

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