KLEIN: OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY Flashcards
Who is the proponent of Object relations theory?
Melanie Reizes Klein
Who is the father of Object Relations Theory?
Sigmund Freud
An object relations theorist that emphasized infant’s struggle to gain autonomy & sense of self
Margaret Mahler
An object relations theorist that emphasized children develop a sense of self (early infancy) when treated as
if they had an individualised sense of identity
Heinz Kohut
An object relations theorist that investigated infants’ attachment to mother & negative
consequences of being separated from mother
John Bowlby
An object relations theorist that developed a technique for measuring type of attachment style
an infant develops toward its caregiver
Mary Ainsworth
Who is the husband of Melanie Klein?
Arthur Klein
Who is the closest confidant of Melanie during childhood?
Emmanuel
Who is the sister of Melanie that taught him to arithmatic and reading.
Sidonie
Who are the three children of Melanie?
Melitta, Hanz and Erich
Her child that she used to psychoanalyzed
Erich
He is a psychoanalyst that introduced psychoanalysis to Melanie
Sandor Ferenczi
A second analysts that Melanie asked for psychoanalysis
Karl Abraham
A depressing chapter and turning point of her life
When her mother died
A book that she read that open her interest to psychoanalysis
On Dreams by Freud
A book she wrote that tells about her theory
Psychoanalysis of Children
What is the birthorder of Melanie?
Youngest
Melanie’s Date of Birth
March 30. 1882
Melanie’s Date of Death
September 22, 1960
What are three differences of Melanie’s theory to the instict theory of Freud?
- ORT places less emphasis on biologically based drives; more importance on consistent patterns of interpersonal relationships
- maternal, intimacy and nurturing of the mother (Freud: paternalistic theory)
- prime motive of human behaviour: human contact & relatedness
What is the primitive behavior of human behavior according to ORT?
human contact & relatedness
It is the psychic representations of the unconscious id instincts
Phantasies
It is the child’s wish to destroy one parent and
sexually possess the other
Oedipus Complex
