TY - JOUR A1 - Fonagy, Peter A1 - Target, Mary T1 - The third as holding the dyad. Commentary on paper by Margaret Crastnopol T2 - Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 14 (2004), pp. 733-741. N2 - The authors conceptualize Davies's account of the difficult session with her patient Karen as a mentalization mismatch: an expectable failure on the analyst's part to understand the mental state of the patient. In response, the patient used projective identification to re-create the link to the analyst that was temporarily severed. They argue that the therapeutic impasse produced by Karen's successful externalization of a persecuting part of her self is more than repetition of a past relationship. It is the current experience of a disorganized self: a pervasive state for the borderline patient, and a temporary but no less disorganized state in the analyst. Y1 - 2004 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-Fromm/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31976 ER -