01:830:101 Study Guide - Impulsivity, Retina, Gelf

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

All traumas in childhood are disturbances in dependency. These disturbances can include: abandonment, failure to protect, etc. The primary task of the child is to set up dependency relationships with an adult that provides for the child"s survival. Objects mean anything that satisfies or violates a survival need. Something that satisfies a survival need is called a good object. Over the course of the child"s development, the structure of the child"s environment is pulled into the child, internalized, to become the structure of the child"s own mind. That is, the parts of the child"s mind take over the set of good and bad roles, that the environment used to have. If there has been an unsafe betraying person in you childhood, this person is pulled into your mind to becoming an unsafe betraying person inside your mind. So, in situations as an adult, which are quite safe, you become anxious because of the unsafe betraying person inside.