Idealization is the normal experience of a young child who puts his parents and himself on a pedestal, as in, "My mom is the best cook in the whole world" or "I am the best checkers player ever—nobody ...

Idealization of parents involves perceiving them as perfect, highlighting only their positive traits and minimizing, or even failing to see, their negative aspects. A healthy degree of idealization ...

Mothers—and non-mothers. Our language creates the falsehood that being with a child is a norm. Words like "childless" or "childfree" firmly place the person without a child as the one lacking. Women ...

Idealization and devaluation often occur in people with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Splitting is when someone with BPD sees people in black-and-white terms, either all good or all bad.