Klein: Object Relations Theory

Question 1

was built on careful observations of young children

Answer 1

Object Relations Theory

Question 2

the child’s relation to the _____ is fundamental and serves as a prototype for later relations to whole objects, such as mother and father.

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breast

Question 3

believed that children’s sense of identity rest on a three-step with their mother.

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Margaret Mahler

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theorized that children develop a sense of self during early infancy when parents and others treat them as if they had an individualized sense of identity.

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Heinz Kohut

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Investigated infants attachment to their mother as well as the negative consequences of being separated from their mother.

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John Bowlby

Question 6

developed a technique for measuring the type of attachment style an infant develops toward its caregiver.

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Mary Ainsworth

Question 7

is an offspring of Freud’s instinct theory

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object relations theory

Question 8

Infants do not begin life with a blank slate but with an inherited predisposition to reduce the anxiety they experience.

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Psychic Life of the Infant

Question 9

are psychic representations of unconscious id instinct

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Phantasies

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phantasies possessed unconscious ___ and ___ images

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good, bad

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humans have innate drives or instincts, including a death instinct.

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Object

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dichotomy of good and and bad feelings (ways of dealing with both internal and external objects)

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Positions

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2 basic position

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Paranoid-schizoid position
Depressive position

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a way of organizing experiences that includes both paranoid feelings of being persecuted and a splitting of internal and external objects into the good and the bad.

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Paranoid-schizoid position

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infant fears

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persecutory breast

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provides love, comfort, and gratification

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ideal breast

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infants develop the paranoid-schizoid position during

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3 or 4 months of life

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infants begins to view external objects as whole and to see that good and bad can exist in the same person.

(months)

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5 or 6 months

Question 19

the feelings of anxiety over losing a loved object coupled with a sense of guilt for wanting to destroy that object.

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Depressive position

Question 20

to protect their ego against the anxiety aroused by their own destructive fantasies.

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Psychic Defense Mechanism

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infants use several psychic defense mechanism such as:

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Introjection
Projection
Splitting
Projective Identification

Question 22

infants fantasize taking into their body those perception and experiences that they have had with the external object, originally the mother’s breast. (to take in both good and bad objects)

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Introjection

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is the fantasy that one’s own feelings and impulses actually reside in another person and not within one’s body. (the use is to get rid of them)

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Projection

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keeping apart incompatible impulse

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Splitting

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excessive and inflexible splitting can lead to

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pathological repression

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a psychic defense mechanism in which infants split off unacceptable parts of themselves, project them into another object, and finally introject them back into themselves in a changed or distorted form.

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Projective Identification

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The person takes in (introjects) aspects of the external world and then organizes those introjections into a psychologically meaningful framework.

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Internalizations

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3 important internalizations

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Ego, Superego, Oedipus Complex

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mostly unorganized at birth, it's strong enough to feel anxiety, to use defense mechanism, and to form early object relations in both phantasy and reality.

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ego

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produces not guilt but terror

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early superego

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it emerges earlier in life

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superego

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serves the same need for both genders, that is, to establish a positive attitude with the good or gratifying object (breast or penis) and to avoid the bad terrifying object.

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Oedipus Complex

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a little girl sees her mother's breast as both "good and bad".

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Female Oedipal Development

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the little boy sees his mother's breast as both good and bad

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Male Oedipal Development

Question 35

Klein believed that people are born with two strong drives, what is it?

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Life instinct and death instinct

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three major developmental stage (Mahler's)

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Normal Autism Normal Symbiosis Separation-Individuation

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four substages of separation-individuation

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Differentiation Practicing Rapprochement Libidinal object constancy

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two basic narcissistic needs (Kohut)

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1. the need to exhibit the grandiose self 2. the need to acquire an idealized image of one or both parents

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three stages of separation anxiety (Bowlby)

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Protest stage Despair Detachment

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three attachment style (Ainsworth)

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Secure Attachment Anxious-resistant attachment Anxious-avoidant attachment

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2 insecure attachment

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anxious-resistant anxious-avoidant

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believing that young children express their conscious and unconscious wishes through

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Play therapy