Pretend mode is a primitive form of mental activity in which the inner world is divorced from contact with the external world. prtend mode is the opposite of psychic equivalence as a form of pre-mentalization: in the latter there is no distinction with or protection from the outer world, in the former interaction between inner and outer worlds is stifled.[1]

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  1. ^ P Williams ed., The Psychonanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbances(2010) p. 52-3
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