Contemporary psychoanalysis is comprised of three dominant paradigms: ego psychology, object relations theory, and self psychology.

At that time, object relations theory was Kleinian, that is, reductionistic. Projective mechanisms were seen as the bedrock of both. Soon thereafter, object relations theory developed an interpersonal ...

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 ...

The combined assessment of social cognition and object relations facilitates a nuanced understanding of mental processes, offering valuable data for tailoring psychotherapeutic interventions.

Contemporary psychoanalysis is comprised of three dominant paradigms: ego psychology, object relations theory, and self psychology.