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Psych 610
Personality Theories
Question | Answer |
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Object Relations Theory: Emphasis: less on biological drives and more | on consistent patterns of interpersonal relations (need to relate & attach to others. |
Object Relations Theory: Emphasis: (opposed to Freud) | more maternal stressing intimacy and nurturing of the mother |
Object Relations Theory: Emphasis: (away from sexual pleasure) as the prime motive of human behavior | human contact and relatedness |
Phantasies | unconcious images of good and bad (sucking on thumb=sucking on mothers good breast) |
Objects | a person or part of a person that can satisfy an instinct or drive (good breast-hunger drive) |
Paranoid-Schizoid Position | a way of organizing experiences/manage ambiguous feelings (good breast devouring it, bad breast biting it) |
Depressive Position | the feelings of anxiety over losing a loved object coupled with a sense of guilt for wanting to destroy that object |
Introjection/Internalizations | infants fantasize taking into their bodies those perceptions and experiences that they had with the external object (mothers breast) |
to control anxieties infants use several psychic defense mechanisms | introjections, projections, splitting, projective identification |
Projection | the fantasy that ones own feelings & impulses actually reside in another person and not w/in their own body |
Splitting | keeping apart incompatible impulses |
Projective Identification | 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 |
Selfobjects: Kohut | parents or significant adults in a child's life who become incorporated into the child's sense of self |
Mirroring & Modeling | 1. you exist-you have VALUE 2. this is what you are feeling-DEFINITION 3. feeling felt- ATTUNEMENT 4. PERMISSION to feel what you feel |