Object Relations Flashcards
Objects
Object Relations
Others (mom, dad, caregiver) in thhe external world
Goals
Object Relations
-Build new internal structure
-insight
Splitting
Object Relations
When two contradictory states are compartmentalized and not integrated. (all good or all bad)
Projective Identification
Object Relations
a person will project a thought or belief that they have onto a second person. Then there is another action in which the second person is changed by the projection and begins to behave as though they are, in fact, actually
Ego
Object Relations
The structure responsible for dealing with the world, for instituting defense mechanisms, for internalizing external objects.
Self- and Object-Representations
Object Relations
fundamental internal structures that affect the ways in which individuals view themselves and others.
Introjection
Object Relations
Client replicates in themselves behaviors, attributes, or other fragments of the surrounding world, especially of other people.