Summary
Splitting is a term used in psychiatry to describe the inability to hold opposing thoughts, feelings, or beliefs.
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It is also known as black-and-white thinking or all-or-nothing thinking.
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People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) tend to characterize themselves, other people, and situations in black and white, meaning they may suddenly characterize people, objects, beliefs, or situations as either all good or all bad.
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Splitting can interfere with relationships and lead to intense and self-destructive behaviors.
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Understanding the process of diagnosis and the careful management of BPD can be helpful in understanding behaviors like splitting.
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What Causes Splitting? The Downfalls Of Splitting. Dividing life into categories can be useful. Nonetheless, without critically examining the... History Of Splitting. Splitting was first looked at in the late…
What Is Splitting Psychology? | BetterHelp
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Splitting (also called black-and-white thinking or all-or-nothing thinking ) is the failure in a person's thinking to bring together the dichotomy of both perceived positive and negative qualities of something into a cohesive, realistic whole.
Splitting (psychology) - Wikipedia
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Splitting diffuses the anxietythat arises from our inability to grasp the nuances and complexities of a given situation or state of affairs by simplifying and schematizing it. In addition, it...
Self-Deception II: Splitting | Psychology Today
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To split something means to divide it. Those with BPD tend to characterize themselves, other people, and situations in black and white. In other words, they may suddenly characterize people, objects, beliefs, or situations as either all good or all bad.
BPD Splitting: Symptoms, Causes, and How to Cope - Healthline
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Splitting is a term that came out of classical (psychoanalytical or psychodynamic) schools of thought and refers to an unconscious ego defense mechanism by which a fairly complex entity cannot…
Understanding “Splitting” as a Psychological Term
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Splitting is a psychological mechanism which allows the person to tolerate difficult and overwhelming emotions by seeing someone as either good or bad, idealised or devalued. This makes it easier…
Splitting in Borderline Personality Disorder | Priory
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Splitting is a psychological mechanism which allows the person to tolerate difficult and overwhelming emotions by seeing someone as either good or bad, idealised or devalued. This makes it easier…
The Psychology of Splitting - Medium
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