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Feist−Feist: Theories of

Personality, Seventh

Edition

II. Psychodynamic

Theories

5. Klein: Object Relations Theory

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Companies, 2009

Klein: Object

Relations Theory

BOverview of Object Relations Theory

BBiography of Melanie Klein

BIntroduction to Object Relations Theory

BPsychic Life of the Infant

Phantasies

Objects

BPositions

Paranoid-Schizoid Position

Depressive Position

BPsychic Defense Mechanisms

Introjection

Projection

Splitting

Projective Identification

BInternalizations

Ego

Superego

Oedipus Complex

Female Oedipal Development

Male Oedipal Development

BLater Views on Object Relations

Margaret Mahler’s View

Heinz Kohut’s View

John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory

Mary Ainsworth and the Strange Situation

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CHAPTER 5

BPsychotherapy

BRelated Research

Object Relations and Eating Disorders

Attachment Theory and Adult Relationships

BCritique of Object Relations Theory

BConcept of Humanity

BKey Terms and Concepts