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"Shared fantasy" concept

The concept of a "Shared Fantasy" is apparently from The Middle Years – New Psychoanalytic Perspectives (John M. Oldham, Robert S. Liebert) and an article by "Sanders" which is about couples, mentally healthy or not, commonly entering into a shared fantasy. He mentions it in this talk

Academic references

References to academic papers hard to find on the vaknin-talks.com website as they're lectures, and also in "Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited". This website has links below

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