After reading Chapter 5, you should be able to: - Define object relations theory and compare it to Freudian theory.
- Discuss the psychological life of the infant as seen from Klein's point of view.
- Explain Klein's concepts of the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions.
- List and discuss Klein's psychic defense mechanisms.
- Compare and contrast Klein's concept of the Oedipus complex with that of Freud.
- Discuss Mahler's ideas on psychological birth.
- Discuss Kohut's views of object relations.
- Discuss Bowlby's attachment theory.
- Discuss Ainsworth's Strange Situation.
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