Object Relations Theory
OBJECT RELATIONS THEORIES AND SELF PSYCHOLOGY
Object Relations and Self Psychology Object relations refers to interpersonal relations
2. Object refers to that which will satisfy a need. Significant person or thing that is target of another's feelings (drives).
3. In combination with relations, object refers to interpersonal relations and suggests inner residues of past relations shaping present relations
4. Object relations theorists investigate the early formulation and differentiation of psychological structure and how these inner structures are manifested in interpersonal situations
5. Theorists focus on relationships of early life that leave lasting impression within the psyche of the individual.
1. Residues…inner object relations shape the perceptions of individual and relationship with other individuals.
2. Individual interact not only with an actual other but the internal other…a psychic representation that might be distorted version of social actual person.
3. Self psychologists give more emphasis to the self than to the ego, or self representations or instincts.
Study of Cinderella: 7. Freudian purist might investigate her repressed sexual instincts; unresolved oedipal feeling for her parent; problems in terms of defense; conflicts between id and ego.
8. Object relations approach - defense of splitting…sees some women as bad and some as good...creates inner distortions of persons…therapy would center on her inner distortions
9. Self psychology – would focus on transference relations which might reveal an impoverished self in need of a powerful object... A need to affirms by fairy godmother, prince, therapist.
10. Freud’s model speaks to how the personality is put together. 11. object relations and self psychology focus on preoedipal development…see mental illness/problems in terms of developmental arrests rather than structural conflicts Developmental arrests result in unfinished and unintegrative structure
Object Relations and Self Psychology Object relations refers to interpersonal relations
2. Object refers to that which will satisfy a need. Significant person or thing that is target of another's feelings (drives).
3. In combination with relations, object refers to interpersonal relations and suggests inner residues of past relations shaping present relations
4. Object relations theorists investigate the early formulation and differentiation of psychological structure and how these inner structures are manifested in interpersonal situations
5. Theorists focus on relationships of early life that leave lasting impression within the psyche of the individual.
1. Residues…inner object relations shape the perceptions of individual and relationship with other individuals.
2. Individual interact not only with an actual other but the internal other…a psychic representation that might be distorted version of social actual person.
3. Self psychologists give more emphasis to the self than to the ego, or self representations or instincts.
Study of Cinderella: 7. Freudian purist might investigate her repressed sexual instincts; unresolved oedipal feeling for her parent; problems in terms of defense; conflicts between id and ego.
8. Object relations approach - defense of splitting…sees some women as bad and some as good...creates inner distortions of persons…therapy would center on her inner distortions
9. Self psychology – would focus on transference relations which might reveal an impoverished self in need of a powerful object... A need to affirms by fairy godmother, prince, therapist.
10. Freud’s model speaks to how the personality is put together. 11. object relations and self psychology focus on preoedipal development…see mental illness/problems in terms of developmental arrests rather than structural conflicts Developmental arrests result in unfinished and unintegrative structure