PSY 20673 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Object Relations Theory, Melanie Klein, Introjection
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Klein: object relations theory: overview of object relations theory. Many personality theorists have accepted some of freud"s basic assumptions while rejecting others. One approach to extending psychodynamic theory has been the object relations theories of. Unlike jung and adler who came to reject. Freud"s ideas, klein tried to validate freud"s theories. Klein extended freud"s developmental stages downward to the first 4 to 6 months after birth. Melanie klein was born in vienna in 1892, the youngest of four children. She had neither a phd nor an md degree but became an analyst by being psychoanalyzed. As an analyst, she specialized in working with young children. In 1927, she moved to london where she practiced until her death in 1960. The term object in object relations theory refers to any person or part of a person that infants introject, or take into their psychic structure and then later project onto other people.
