• Object relations theory is a school of thought in psychoanalytic theory and psychoanalysis centered around theories of stages of ego development. Its...
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  • and object constancy. Relational psychoanalysis combines interpersonal psychoanalysis with object-relations theory and with inter-subjective theory as...
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  • Freud's most profound contributions to object relations theory, elucidating the overall principles of object relations and narcissism as concepts. According...
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    theory integrated concepts from evolutionary biology, object relations theory, control systems theory, ethology, and cognitive psychology, and was fully...
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  • against awareness of separation between ego and object. In the wake of Klein, object relations theory, including particularly the American schools of...
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  • particularly influential in psychoanalysis and Object relations theory. Mahler developed the separation–individuation theory of child development. Born Margaret...
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  • unknowable. Object-oriented ontology predates speculative realism, however, and makes distinct claims about the nature and equality of object relations to which...
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  • needed to determine any links between attachment theory, religiosity, and personality. Object relations theory describes how children relate or associate different...
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  • or planetary object, any secondary body in the Solar System that has a planet-like geology Astronomical object In object relations theory of psychoanalysis...
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    comprehensive theory of the nature of early attachments, Bowlby explored a range of fields including evolution by natural selection, object relations theory (psychoanalysis)...
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  • process of making mental repairs to a damaged internal world. In object relations theory, it represents a key part of the movement from the paranoid-schizoid...
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    even formal theories are considered as mathematical objects in proof theory. In Philosophy of mathematics, the concept of "mathematical objects" touches...
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    Ronald Fairbairn (category Object relations theorists)
    psychoanalyst and a central figure in the development of the Object Relations Theory of psychoanalysis. He was generally known and referred to as "W...
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  • Self psychology (category Object relations theory)
    three other directions: drive theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and object relations theory. From the perspective of drive theory, Kohut appears 'as an important...
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    Category theory is a general theory of mathematical structures and their relations. It was introduced by Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane in the...
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  • In category theory, a branch of mathematics, an initial object of a category C is an object I in C such that for every object X in C, there exists precisely...
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  • properties, relations or tropes. According to bundle theory, an object consists of its properties and nothing more; thus, there cannot be an object without...
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  • was a British psychoanalyst known for his major contributions to object relations theory or school of Freudian thought. He was a Fellow of the British Psychological...
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  • A comfort object, more formally a transitional object or attachment object, is an item used to provide psychological comfort, especially in unusual or...
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  • Good enough parent (category Object relations theory)
    mothers. Attachment theory Family estrangement Idealization and devaluation Middle Group Object relations theory Transitional object D. W. Winnicott, The...
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  • be characterized by them appropriately and justifiably. In the object relations theory of Melanie Klein, projective identification is a defense mechanism...
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  • Paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions (category Object relations theory)
    Klein proposed a "(psychic) position theory" instead of a "(psychic) stage theory". In object relations theory, the paranoid-schizoid position is a state...
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  • detailed exploration of interpersonal interactions with British object relations theory's ideas about the psychological importance of internalized relationships...
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    arrow for each object. A simple example is the category of sets, whose objects are sets and whose arrows are functions. Category theory is a branch of...
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  • process, Freud provided his major contribution to the foundation of object relations theory. Freud saw thinking as an experimental process involving minimal...
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  • Stephen A. (1984). Object relations theories and the developmental tilt Rubinstein, B. (1975). On the clinical psychoanalytic theory and its role in the...
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  • known for his contributions to the fields of psychotherapy and object relations theory and for his participation in the national and international debate...
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  • Identification (psychology) (category Object relations theory)
    in normal object relationships. They can be studied especially in analyzing the psychoanalyst's ways of working". Object relations theory would subsequently...
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  • justifies and constructs with object a'. Gradually, however, their influence entered the mainstream. 'British object relations theory influenced North American...
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    Melanie Klein (category Object relations theorists)
    child analysis. She was the primary figure in the development of object relations theory. Klein's work primarily focused on the role of ambivalence and...
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