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    Object relations theory discusses how children internalize relationships with caregivers during infancy and how this unconsciously influences future relationships. Children internalize not just the caregiver as an object, but the entire relationship. This includes internal representations (internal objects) that are mentally held even when the person is not present. Key concepts include introjection, projection, splitting, and the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions in early development.

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    Object relations theory discusses how children internalize relationships with caregivers during infancy and how this unconsciously influences future relationships. Children internalize not just the caregiver as an object, but the entire relationship. This includes internal representations (internal objects) that are mentally held even when the person is not present. Key concepts include introjection, projection, splitting, and the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions in early development.

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    one’s psychological and

    Joshua H. Tuguinay emotional impression of


    Advanced Theories of Personality a person

    Object Relations Theory


    the representation that we
    Concept Map people, parts of people, hold onto when the person
    or physical items that Internal Objects is not physically there
    discusses the effect of the internalized symbolically represent
    relations with primary caretakers during either a person or part
    an actual person or thing
    infancy, and their unconscious influence of a person.
    External Objects that someone invests in
    on the nature of future relationships
    with emotional energy
    Objects
    Object Constancy
    the ability to recognize
    that objects do not
    the dynamic change simply because
    Object internalized we do not see them
    Introjection
    Relations relationships between
    Object the self and significant
    Theory others (objects) Projection identification
    Relations
    Splitting
    Unconscious
    Phantasies the unique mental and
    primitive emotional capacities of an
    internalized mental individual result from the
    children do not only Splitting images of instincts interaction of these
    internalize the object itself,
    and drives phantasies with actual
    but also the entire
    relationship experience, and the
    “Good-enough
    emotion that ensues
    The mental separation of objects into "good" mother”
    The object as perceived by the self and "bad" parts and the subsequent
    repression of the "bad," or anxiety-provoking, serve as the basis
    The self in relation to the object aspects. Infants first experience splitting in the mother is able to for all future mental
    their relationship with the primary caregiver. satisfactorily meet the mechanisms
    The relationship between self and object needs of the infant
    Paranoid-schizoid position (newborn- 4-6 months)

    Death Instinct exists when needs


    (Thanatos) Mother are fulfilled,
    causing feelings of
    love towards the
    object

    Anxiety Good Breast

    Bad Breast
    Infant
    exists when the
    mother is unable to
    Introjection fill the infant’s needs
    immediately, causing
    the ego is Projection a desire to destroy
    still in a Identification ties the self to positive this object
    primitive sensations and thus forms
    state Splitting the basis for the
    development of a positive
    self-concept, more suited to
    unable to
    sustain negative aspects of
    maintain a the self as well
    unified mental relationships are
    image of the self maintained with parts
    or of others therefore
    of objects (e.g. breast
    rather than mother)
    The Depressive Position (6 months +)

    realization that the mother Good Mother Bad Mother


    phantasized of destroying, (Good Breast) (Bad Breast)
    is the same as the loved
    mother
    +

    Integrated
    ego
    Guilt

    Infant Mother

    engages in reparation in an
    effort to restore and fix
    objects he phantasized
    destroying

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