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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Psychoanalysis (redirect from Psychoanalitic theory)
and object constancy. Relational psychoanalysis combines interpersonal psychoanalysis with object-relations theory and with inter-subjective theory as...
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History of narcissism (section Object relations theory)
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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Narcissistic defences (section Object relations theory)
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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theory integrated concepts from evolutionary biology, object relations theory, control systems theory, ethology, and cognitive psychology, and was fully...
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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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Wilfred Bion (redirect from Bizarre object)
part of his interpretation of object relations theory. Bion saw psychotic attacks on the normal linking between objects as producing a fractured world...
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Margaret Mahler (redirect from Separation-Individuation theory of child development)
particularly influential in psychoanalysis and Object relations theory. Mahler developed the separation–individuation theory of child development. Born Margaret...
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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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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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ontologically exhausted by their relations with humans or other objects. For object-oriented ontologists, all relations, including those between nonhumans...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cathexis (section Object relations)
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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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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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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Splitting (psychology) (redirect from Theory of splitting)
formulation of object relations theory in 1952; it begins as the inability of the infant to combine the fulfilling aspects of the parents (the good object) and...
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Projective identification (section Objects projected)
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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detailed exploration of interpersonal interactions with British object relations theory's ideas about the psychological importance of internalized relationships...
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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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Capacity to be alone (category Object relations theory)
be alone is a developmentally acquired ability, considered by object relations theory to be a key to creative living. Julia Kristeva sees it as central...
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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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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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