Explore: Object Relations (psychology)

Object relations theory is a school of thought in psychoanalytic theory and psychoanalysis centered around theories of stages of ego development. Its concerns

more 'as complementary partners. Drive psychology, ego psychology, object relations psychology and self psychology each have important insights to offer

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

scenarios where an object may serve multiple functions, enriches our understanding of human behavior and attitude change. Attitude (psychology) - The terms

Schafer, and Merton Gill); object relations theory; and self psychology. Charles Brenner (1982) attempted to revive ego psychology with a concise and incisive

psychoanalysts regard the unconscious as made up of phantasies of relations with objects. These are thought of as primary and innate, and as the mental representations

In psychology, an attitude "is a summary evaluation of an object of thought. An attitude object can be anything a person discriminates or holds in mind"

A comfort object, more formally a transitional object or attachment object, is an item used to provide psychological comfort, especially in unusual or

main perspectives on depth psychology: Psychoanalytic: Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott (among others); object relations theory; Neo-Freudianism Adlerian:

Janet Malcolm reports that by the late 20th century, to the object relations psychology "avant-garde, the events of the Oedipal period are pallid and