It is a form of object relations, and "a pathway for psychological change.

What psychoanalysts refer to as "object relations" is only one piece of Freud's overall psychology.

He developed an object relations approach to intergenerational and family-of-origin therapy.

The significance for human living is that meaning is given to our lives through object relations.

If this is eroded through job experiences, the chances of making, no matter how keenly sought, mature object relations are minimised.

The defense against these contradictory internalized object relations leads to disturbed relationships with others and with self.

The therapist will try to explore and clarify aspects of this relationship so the underlying object relations dyads become clear.

One way that his work can be distinguished from other variants of object-oriented thought is by its focus on the causal dimension of object relations.

The effect of introjection on object relations is equally important.

Margaret Mahler's separation-individuation theory of child development contained three phases regarding the child's object relations.