This article examines the political contents of object relations psychoanalysis, a theory that perceives dependence as the natural state of all humans. Unlike the views advanced by the classical state ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Group-as-a-whole and object relations theory have evolved along parallel paths. The initial application of the former to psychotherapy at the ...

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." –Rudyard Kipling To the trainee or beginning psychotherapist, psychodynamic theory is often seen as a daunting, obscure paradigm with a ...

Applying knowledge from Melanie Klein’s object relations theory may be useful when dealing with a narcissist. Often a person with strong narcissistic tendencies relates to the people closest to him or ...