PSY 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Margaret Mahler, Melanie Klein, Harry Harlow
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Harry harlow (experiment with monkeys; not an object relations theorist) Whereas freud saw sex and aggression as the fundamental human motive, object relations theorists, while they use analytic techniques such as free association, transference, and dream analysis and emphasize unconscious processes, have a very different view of motivation. For them, humans are motivated to achieve human relationships and the earliest relationships prior to age three become prototypes for later relationships. Your text gives most coverage to melanie klein. I find her ideas to be strange and unbelievable, so i will require you to read only the material on margaret mahler, mary. Additional information on these people will be presented in class. I will also add some related material on harry harlow. Born in hungary received medical training in germany, md 1923, (freud was 67), and spent the first part of her career in vienna practicing pediatrics.
