Explore: Psychic Aspects Of Interpersonal Relations

bedrock of the development of the self, i.e. the psychic organization that creates one's sense of identity. While its groundwork derives from theories of development

proposed that patients could keep certain aspects or components of their interpersonal relationships out of their awareness by a psychological behavior

integrate interpersonal psychoanalysis's emphasis on the detailed exploration of interpersonal interactions with British object relations theory's ideas

Social Cognition Section), Colin Wayne Leach (Barnard College; Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes Section), and Richard E. Lucas (Michigan State

"(psychic) position theory" instead of a "(psychic) stage theory". In object relations theory, the paranoid-schizoid position is a state of mind of children

other aspects of his or her life.[citation needed] A link has been found between castration anxiety and fear of death. Although differing degrees of anxiety

infant development, on which he had written a number of books — most notably The Interpersonal World of the Infant (1985). Stern's 1985 and 1995 research

object constancy. Relational psychoanalysis combines interpersonal psychoanalysis with object-relations theory and with inter-subjective theory as critical

characterized by a pervasive, long-term pattern of significant interpersonal relationship instability, an acute fear of abandonment, and intense emotional outbursts

the pleasure of milk without the psychic re-inscription of the scene in the mind. "The finding of an object is in fact a re-finding of it."[citation