Journal articles: 'Object relations (Psychoanalysis)'

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Nelin, Ievgen. "THE PROBLEM OF DEVELOPMENT OF OBJECT RELATIONS IN THE IDEAS OF PSYCHOANALYSTS OF THE «INDEPENDENT» GROUP." Academic Notes Series Pedagogical Science 1, no. 203 (March 2022): 103–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.36550/2415-7988-2022-1-203-103-107.

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The article reveals the key ideas of psychoanalysts of the «independent» group of the British Psychoanalytic Association. To date, the framework of the modern anthropological system consists of psychoanalytic theories of personality development. In addition to the orthodox (classical) psychoanalysis of S. Freud, individual psychology of A. Adler and analytical psychology of Jung, an important place in the system of psychoanalytic directions is occupied by the theory of object relations - psychoanalytic current, which is based on the idea that as much the satisfaction of internal urges, as Freud argued, as the successful search and establishment of relationships with others. However, in addition to the work of M. Klein and the followers of her scientific and practical school, the creative work of other representatives of British psychoanalysis remains little studied for Ukrainian science. On the basis of the theoretical analysis of literary sources the main principles of psychoanalytic pedagogy within the theory of object relations are revealed. The main features of the theory of object relations, around which the representatives of the «independent» group gathered, have been identified. Emphasis is placed on the common and different views of British psychoanalysts on the formation of the child's personality, as well as criticism of the ideas of classical psychoanalysis. In particular, it is proved that the representatives of the «independent» group departed from the classical Freudian idea of the dominant influence of the Oedipus complex and the rigid «Super Ego» on the formation of personality. It is proved that the representatives of the «independent» group adhered to three common ideas: 1) each person from birth seeks to object relations, rather than to meet needs; 2) the interaction of the newborn with the outside world, especially in the dyad with the mother, has a decisive influence on the evolution of his inner world, which is considered through the prism of introjected inner objects; 3) a person's attitude to external objects is determined by imaginary internal object relations, which were formed in the child's psyche at an early age. It was concluded that the activities of analysts of the «independent» group focused on the problems of interpersonal communication, the child's interaction with parents at an early age, as well as the problems of identification and self-perception. Prospects for further research are planned in revealing the peculiarities of the work of Balint’s groups and the organization of scientific and practical measures for the prevention of pedagogical burnout.

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Blum, Harold P. "Object Relations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis." Contemporary Psychoanalysis 46, no. 1 (January 2010): 32–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2010.10746038.

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Blum, Harold P. "Object relations in clinical psychoanalysis." International Journal of Psychoanalysis 91, no. 4 (August 2010): 973–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-8315.2010.00308.x.

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Silverman, Hirsch Lazaar. "Psychoanalysis and Object Relations Therapy." Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews 38, no. 9 (September 1993): 989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/033735.

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Thomas, Kenneth R., Kaiqi Zhou, and David A. Rosenthal. "Object Relations Theory: A Primer for Rehabilitation Psychologists." Journal of Rehabilitation Therapy 5, no. 1 (March 16, 2023): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.29245/2767-5122/2023/1.1131.

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Object Relations (OR) has been identified as one of the four major schools of psychoanalysis. This article provides a comprehensive review of OR practice and theory in the context of rehabilitation psychology. Extensive data are presented on five of the most prominent pioneer object relations theorists, including Melanie Klein, W. R. D. Fairbairn, Michal Balint, Harry Guntrip, and D. W. Winnicott. All of these individuals have contributed significantly to object relations theory. Melanie Klein and W. R. D Fairbairn have been credited with founding the object relations perspective, Michael Balint has been touted as the leading object relations theorist, Harry Guntrip was analyzed by both Fairbairn and Winnicott, and D.W. Winnicott is probably the most creative and respected psychoanalytic theorist since Sigmund Freud. All five of these theorists brought a fresh, new perspective on psychoanalytic theory and practice, and their contributions may be used to better understand the personality development of persons with a disability and to inform the practice of rehabilitation psychology.

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Gerson, Gal. "Object Relations Psychoanalysis as Political Theory." Political Psychology 25, no. 5 (October 2004): 769–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2004.00397.x.

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Dosamantes-Alperson, Erma. "A Current Perspective of Imagery in Psychoanalysis." Imagination, Cognition and Personality 5, no. 3 (March 1986): 199–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/tr82-e27w-6y0w-ld3n.

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Two schools of thought concerning the value of imagery in psychoanalysis are contrasted. Discussion centers on the kinds of object relations manifested in the images of different types of patients, the role of imagery in internalizing particular analyst functions, and the value of attending to transference and countertransference images in promoting the forward movement of psychoanalytic treatment.

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Kennedy, Seán. "Mothering Molloy, or Beckett and Cutlery." Journal of Beckett Studies 28, no. 1 (April 2019): 35–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2019.0252.

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This essay reads Beckett's relationship to psychoanalysis as a central concern of Molloy, arguing that Molloy's quest for mother traces Beckett's re-evaluation of the British school of object-relations theory of Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. Tracing fine furniture, in Irish literature of the 1920s and 1930s, as an objective correlative of Anglo-Irish distinction, and linking that tradition to a Winnicottian reading of Molloy's impulsive theft of silverware, I argue that Molloy parodies the language of object-relations in order to situate Beckett newly in relation to it. In other words, Beckett intimates that Molloy's unhealthy obsession with mother is mirrored in psychoanalytic theory itself. In this way, writing Molloy allows him to re-evaluate psychoanalysis in its obsession with ‘mother’ as the founding site of psychic health and wellness.

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Soreanu, Raluca. "Michael Balint's Word Trail: The ‘Ocnophil’, the ‘Philobat’ and Creative Dyads." Psychoanalysis and History 21, no. 1 (April 2019): 53–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/pah.2019.0281.

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In this paper, I discuss how Michael Balint arrived at the concepts of ‘ocnophil’ and ‘philobat’, which refer to two kinds of object relations. I look at the correspondence between Balint and the classical scholar David Eichholz. The two crafted these words together in a passionate exchange of letters. By recognizing the importance of creative dyads in psychoanalysis, we gain more insight into the creation of psychoanalytic knowledge beyond the frame of individual authorship. I read the collaboration between Balint and Eichholz in its historical and theoretical context, particularly in relation to the Budapest School of psychoanalysis, where intellectual collaborations had an important place. The Budapest School was Michael Balint's first home, and it shaped his epistemic and psychoanalytic style. Balint constructed his psychoanalytic theories in a spirit of openness, maintaining a commitment to conversations between psychoanalysis and other disciplines.

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Schmacks, Yanara. "‘Only mothers can be true revolutionaries’: The Politicization of Motherhood in 1980s West German Psychoanalysis." Psychoanalysis and History 23, no. 1 (April 2021): 49–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/pah.2021.0368.

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Analyzing conceptualizations of motherhood in 1980s West German psychoanalytic debates, this article argues that, in the wake of what can be termed as a ‘turn to motherhood,’ German psychoanalysis saw an unprecedented politicization of motherhood that followed from a conjunction of three distinct historical contexts: the integration of feminist theories of subjectivity into the psychoanalytic canon; the belated reception of the British object relations school; and the renewed attempt at grappling with the Nazi past. On the one hand, West German (female) psychoanalysts posited motherhood as a utopian space that allowed for uncorrupted forms of intersubjectivity in the form of an intimate and sexualized mother–child/mother–daughter relationship. On the other hand, and mirroring this ideal, motherhood, if not practiced correctly, could, according to psychoanalytically inspired thinkers in the late 1980s, also be a source of fascism.

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ying, Feng. "The Theory of Object Relations under Psychoanalysis." Theory and Practice of Psychological Counseling 3, no. 6 (2021): 424–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.35534/tppc.0306052.

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Finkelstein, Lionel. "Psychoanalysis, Marital Therapy, and Object-Relations Theory." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 36, no. 4 (August 1988): 905–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000306518803600403.

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Jacobus, Mary. "Magical Arts: The Poetics of Play." Psychoanalysis and History 7, no. 1 (January 2005): 21–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/pah.2005.7.1.21.

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The paper argues that links between play and magic in British Object Relations point to the persistence of aesthetic concerns within psychoanalysis. Magical thinking is present in British Object Relations psychoanalysis from its beginnings in Klein's play technique and early aesthetic writings, surfacing elsewhere in Susan Isaacs's educational experiments and her theories of metaphor. Marion Milner's clinical account of the overlapping areas of illusion and symbolformation in a boy's war-games link the primitive rituals of Frazer's The Golden Bough with her patient's creativity. In Winnicott's concept of the transitional object, the theory of play achieves its apotheosis as a diffusive theory of culture or ‘private madness’, and as a paradigm for psychoanalysis itself. Tracing the non-positivistic, mystical, and poetical elements in British Object Relations underlines the extent to which aesthetics is not just entangled with psychoanalysis, but constitutive of it in its mid-twentieth century manifestations.

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Hinshelwood, Robert. "Natural ethics and informed consent Ética natural e consentimento livre e esclarecido." ETD - Educação Temática Digital 11 (April 1, 2010): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/etd.v11iesp..898.

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In this paper I examine one way in which psychoanalysis could contribute a natural ethics based on the inherent psychological development of a moral conscience. Psychoanalytic object-relations theories postulate the fundamental relational nature of human beings, and therefore the correlated concerns about the well-being of others. The notion of unconscious projective identification central to some theories provides an ethic of integration.

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Cooper, Andrew. "Object Relations and Social Relations: The Implications of the Relational Turn in Psychoanalysis." International Journal of Psychoanalysis 92, no. 5 (October 2011): 1336–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-8315.2011.00492.x.

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Ivey, Gavin. "Object relations and social relations: The implications of the relational turn in psychoanalysis." Subjectivity 4, no. 2 (May 31, 2011): 210–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/sub.2010.1.

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Robbins, Michael. "Psychoanalytic and Biological Approaches to Mental Illness: Schizophrenia." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 40, no. 2 (April 1992): 425–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000306519204000206.

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Biological psychiatrists tend to look upon the phenomena of mind and meaning, which are the data of psychoanalysis, as meaningless epiphenomena, and propose reductive explanations of complex mental states, whereas psychoanalysis tend to ignore the proliferation of neurobiological data indicating the importance of constitutional factors in mental illness. Interactive models which confuse biological causes and psychological consequences, or vice-versa, are theoretically unsound. A scientific model hierarchy is proposed, along with some principles for coexistence and collaboration between neurobiology and psychoanalysis. The problem is illustrated with schizophrenia, a condition whose probable biological underpinnings are now generally considered to remove it from the realm of psychoanalysis. Schizophrenia-vulnerable phenotypes consistent with organic findings and clinical observations are hypothesized, and some ideas about their development in the context of early object relations, leading to pathological forms of symbiosis, are elaborated. A neurobiological rationale for the psychoanalytic treatment of schizophrenia is presented, and special problems related to the biological and symbiotic substrate are examined.

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Naiburg, Suzi, and Robert Rogers. "Self and Other: Object Relations in Psychoanalysis and Literature." American Literature 65, no. 3 (September 1993): 612. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927424.

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Rubovits-Seitz, Philip. "Self and Other: Object Relations in Psychoanalysis and Literature." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 181, no. 4 (April 1993): 272–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00005053-199304000-00020.

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Scharff, David E., Roberto Losso, and Lea Setton. "Pichon Rivière's psychoanalytic contributions: Some comparisons with object relations and modern developments in psychoanalysis." International Journal of Psychoanalysis 98, no. 1 (February 2017): 129–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-8315.12496.

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McIvor, David W. "The Struggle of Integration: James Baldwin and Melanie Klein in the Context of Black Lives Matter." James Baldwin Review 2, no. 1 (December 13, 2016): 75–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/jbr.2.5.

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Recent killings of unarmed black citizens are a fresh reminder of the troubled state of racial integration in the United States. At the same time, the unfolding Black Lives Matter protest movements and the responses by federal agencies each testify to a not insignificant capacity for addressing social pathologies surrounding the color line. In order to respond to this ambivalent situation, this article suggests a pairing between the work of James Baldwin and that of the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. I will argue that we cannot fully appreciate the depths of what Baldwin called the “savage paradox” of race without the insights provided by Klein and object relations psychoanalysis. Conversely, Baldwin helps us to sound out the political significance of object relations approaches, including the work of Klein and those influenced by her such as Hanna Segal and Wilfred Bion. In conversation with the work of Baldwin, object relations theory can help to identify particular social settings and institutions that might allow concrete efforts toward racial justice to take root.

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Bohleber, Werner. "The Restoration of Psychoanalysis in Germany After 1945: Some Focal Points in the Development of Clinical Theory." Psychoanalysis and History 4, no. 1 (January 2002): 5–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/pah.2002.4.1.5.

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After 1945, the development in psychoanalysis in Germany was initially dominated by the programme that had begun at the Göring Institute of integrating the schools of depth-psychology. The connection to philosophical anthropology led to a polemic against a form of psychoanalysis based on the natural sciences. The return of psychoanalysis as it was taught in the International Psychoanalytical Association and the advance of ego psychology put an end to this development. The hermeneutic debate of the 1960s was an impetus for fruitful further developments in ego psychology (‘scenic understanding’) as well as in object relations psychology and the related treatment technique. The debate over the severe pathologies at the end of the 1970s did not bring forth much in the way of independent contributions. The ruptures in this development of psychoanalysis in Germany are interpreted against the background of the coming to terms with National Socialism and the Holocaust. Nach 1945 beherrschte zunächst das im Göring Institut begonnene Programm der synoptischen Verbindung der tiefenpsychologischen Schulen die Entwicklung der Psychoanalyse in Deutschland. Die Verbindung mit der philosophischen Anthropologie und deren scharfer Gegensätzlichkeit zwischen Natur und Geist führte zu einer Polemik gegen die naturwissenschaftliche Psychoanalyse. Die Rückkehr der Psychoanalyse Sigmund Freuds und das Einströmen der Ich-Psychologie beendete diese Entwicklung. Angestoßen durch die Hermeneutik-Debatte der sechziger Jahre kam es zu fruchtbaren Weiterentwicklungen der Ich-Psychologie (‘szenisches Verstehen’) sowie der Objektbeziehungspsychologie und damit verbunden der Behandlungstechnik. Zu der Debatte um die schweren Pathologien Ende der siebziger Jahre entstanden keine eigenständigen Beiträge mehr. Die Brüche in dieser Entwicklung der Psychoanalyse in Deutschland werden auf dem Hintergrund der Auseinandersetzung mit Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust interpretiert. Scham, Schuld, Idealisierung sowie die Diffusion der Generationsgrenzen bildeten ein untergründiges Spannungsfeld.

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Mendes Pedro, António. "A new paradigm for psychoanalysis and psychotherapy." SETTING, no. 43 (December 2020): 63–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/set2020-043004.

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This article seeks to propose a reflection on the immediate future of psychoanalysis. Winnicott's Third Way, in England, and Lebovici, in France, sought to reform psychoanalysis by focusing on empathic observation and enactment, but reconciling it with the mythical paradigm of the Freudian-phantasmatic model, which created an impasse. In order to resume its development, psychoanalysis needs to carry out a scientific revolution proposed by, among others, Stern and the Boston group in the United States with the theory of inter-subjectivity, and by Coimbra de Matos, in Portugal, with the theory of the New Relation. Continuing along this path, we propose that intimate human relations, and their transformation, constitute the new paradigm of current psychoanalysis. To access this new object, psychoanalysis preferably uses the methodology of inter-intentional observation and intervention. Thus from the quality of the "foreintentional" OU "forward-intentional" attunement, from the analytic pair, there are often spontaneous complementary intuitions, empathic enactments and future-oriented actions that result in new forms of intimate relationship in daily life, new social relations in the world and new meanings for life. This is a proposal that integrates the discoveries of neuroscience and psycho-sociology in psychoanalysis, and psychoanalysis in the other sciences.

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Jefferson, Tony. "Masculinity. Sexuality and Hate-Motivated Violence: The Case of Darren." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 2, no. 3 (November 1, 2013): 3–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v2i3.119.

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In this paper I use the case study of Darren, derived from two interviews in a research study of racism in the city of Stoke, UK (Gadd, Dixon and Jefferson 2005; Gadd and Dixon 2011), to explore how best to approach the topic of hate-motivated violence. This entails discussing the relationships among racism (the original object of study), hate-motivated violence (the more general term) and prejudices of various sorts. Because that discussion, I argue, justifies a psychoanalytic starting point, and since violence has become, almost quintessentially, masculine, this leads on to an exploration of what can be learnt from psychoanalysis about the relations among sexuality, masculinity, hatred and violence. This involves brief discussions of some key psychoanalytic terms, but only what is needed to enable sense to be made of my chosen case, which I shall then interrogate using these psychoanalytic ideas, focused on understanding the origins and nature of Darren’s hatred.

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Honneth, Axel. "Postmodern Identity and Object-Relations Theory: On the Seeming Obsolescence of Psychoanalysis." Philosophical Explorations 2, no. 3 (September 1999): 225–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10001999098538708.

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Parish,, Margaret. "Simon Clarke, Herbert Hahn, and Paul Hoggett: Object Relations and Social Relations: The Implications of the Relational Turn in Psychoanalysis." American Journal of Psychoanalysis 71, no. 1 (March 2011): 76–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ajp.2010.37.

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Hall, Todd W., Beth Fletcher Brokaw, Keith J. Edwards, and Patricia L. Pike. "An Empirical Exploration of Psychoanalysis and Religion: Spiritual Maturity and Object Relations Development." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 37, no. 2 (June 1998): 303. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1387529.

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Sjöholm, Cecilia. "The Thinking Fetus: Descartes at the Brink of Psychoanalysis." Emotions: History, Culture, Society 5, no. 2 (December 23, 2021): 234–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010129.

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Abstract Descartes’s philosophy of the passions is central for an understanding of seventeenth-century ideas of affects and emotions and for the history of emotions overall. But does it have bearing today? In this article, I argue that Descartes raises the question of how the infantile relation to the maternal body influences the emotional life of the adult, a question that is still relevant for psychoanalysis and neuropsychology. In the philosophical scholarship on Descartes, the passages which pertain to the infant, or the fetus, and its alleged ‘confused thought’, are often quoted to demonstrate the challenges to dualism that are inherent in his own writings. However, I argue that these discussions point also to the complexity of the development of affects and emotions. In my reading, I show that Descartes’s ideas of the passions can be seen as precursory to psychoanalytic theories of object relations. This opens the way for a new trajectory of research involving fantasy, instincts and repression in the Cartesian analysis of emotions and affects.

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Wiedermann, Klaus. "Fear of Break-up, Fear of Breakdown: Why Some Can Come to Psychoanalysis Only as a Partner in a Couple." Couple and Family Psychoanalysis 7, no. 2 (September 30, 2017): 208–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.33212/cfp.v7n2.2017.208.

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This paper summarises the theory of psychoanalytic couple therapy from the point of view of contemporary object relations theory(s) and then locates psychoanalytic couple therapy in the larger context of psychoanalysis. The author asks why some individuals get the therapy they need by being brought in by their partners, seeming to enter treatment because of a threatened break-up of the couple relationship or a breakdown in one of the partners. The author observes that in these cases unresolved aspects of the self have been located in the partner to such an extent, that at least one partner will initially be very resistant to any form of dynamic therapy, including couple therapy. Winnicott's concepts of "undifferentiation" between self and other and "fear of breakdown", and Colman's concept of "marriage as a psychological container" are used to investigate the couple dynamics in those circumstances. Clinical examples show the slow process of disentangling and reclaiming projected aspects of the self from the shared unconscious phantasy created by the two partners.

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Fortune, Christopher. "Georg Groddeck's Influence on Sandor Ferenczi's Clinical Practice as Reflected in Their Correspondence 1921–1933." Psychoanalysis and History 4, no. 1 (January 2002): 85–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/pah.2002.4.1.85.

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Georg Groddeck's influence on Sandor Ferenczi was critically important to the development of psychoanalysis, and includes influencing Ferenczi's recognition of the significance of the mother which led to the development of object relations theory, his championing the experience of the child and the importance of early trauma, and his recognition of the importance of the body–mind relationship. Excerpts from the new English edition of the Ferenczi–Groddeck Correspondence (Open Gate Press/Other Press) extensively illustrate Groddeck's impact on Ferenczi's ideas during the critical period of the mid-1920s to 1932. This paper postulates that, without Groddeck, Ferenczi may never had the courage to challenge Freud, and thereby expand the frontiers of psychoanalysis.

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Amoretti, Valerio. "On the Psychic Work of Reading." boundary 2 50, no. 2 (May 1, 2023): 31–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-10300594.

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Abstract This essay argues that reading involves a form of unconscious psychic work that has the potential to deeply affect and transform the reader. Recent discussions about the practice of reading shunned psychoanalysis because of its alleged reliance on a suspicious epistemology rooted in the Freudian-Lacanian framework. But object-relations theory offers an alternative paradigm, as Eve Sedgwick knew when she proposed the concept of “reparative reading.” This essay looks to post-Kleinian developments in psychoanalysis, in particular the work of Wilfred Bion and the contemporary Bionians, to describe reading as a creative, quasi-intersubjective process, constituted by the unique match of the psychic demands made by a text and a reader's ability to work with those demands.

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A, Koshy. "Exploring Gender Multiplicity through the Lens of Post- Lacanian Psychoanalysis." Philosophy International Journal 6, no. 3 (September 20, 2023): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.23880/phij-16000302.

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Sexual difference must be recognized in thought and human interactions to enable people to find their real source of jouissance. The Lacanian finding of ‘masculine phallic desire’ and ‘feminine libidinal desire’ in all human beings, irrespective of their biological sex-gender, paved the way for rethinking gender identities. It calls for reforming inter-human relations from the presently predominant utilitarian mode to the one based on love and recognition of the other. Gender is an arbitrary construct to serve the interests of males in finding phallic sexual pleasure, power and recognition in their social life. Assertion of sexual difference and gender multiplicity will enable human beings to find the other human being as their actual desired object, beyond the pleasures offered by wealth, comforts and commodities.

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L. F. S., JUNQUEIRA, and SCORSOLINI-COMIN F. "PSICOLOGIA, LITERATURA E SAÚDE MENTAL." Muitas Vozes 10 (August 4, 2021): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5212/muitasvozes.v.10.2117404.

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The relations between Psychology and literature have been discussed in academic circles, above all from an interest in problematizing how human can be described and understood not as if it were an exclusive object of a given field, but as an element capable of producing reflectionsthat cross areas, which should promote the effect of bringing them together and not moving away, as we observed in contemporary science and in health training itself. From this gap, the objective of this theoretical study is to reflect on the possible approximations between Psychology and literature, having mental health as its field of application. The framework adopted for this reflection is that of Psychoanalysis, mainly based on the contributions of the English psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott. From triggering concepts such as identification, transitional object and playing, we problematize how reading, writing and contact with literature can be powerful therapeutic tools for emotional maturation. In the field of health education, despite the distance from professionals in areas such as literature, we recommend that the resumption of this contact may be important in the sense of promoting more humanized care

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Abiyeva, Nergis, and Ceren Özpinar. "Inside The Red Mansion: Füsun Onur's world of objects, care relations, and art." Image & Text, no. 37 (December 10, 2023): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2617-3255/2023/n37a19.

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The Red Mansion, or Hayri Onur Yalisi, acquired by the artist's family in the 1930s, has been home to the Turkish sculptor and installation artist Füsun Onur and her sister ilhan for almost her entire life. It has a significant place in the artist's career as it houses not only her life, studio, and archive, but also the affectionately preserved mementoes of her mother. In this article, we explore the role of the Red Mansion and its concentrated materiality in Füsun's art and her relations with objects, her family, and her sister ilhan. We examine four of her artworks, which we argue are based on collaborative creativity and mutual care: Dollhouse (1970s), Counterpoint with Flowers (1982), The Dream of Abandoned Furniture (1985), and Once Upon a Time (2022). The interdisciplinary theoretical framework of our analysis draws upon care studies, family sociology, object-oriented ontology, and psychoanalysis. We propose that the Red Mansion and the objects therein are deeply connected to the artist's unique understanding of home and family, which defines her work, evoking a caring world that values humans and nonhumans alike.

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Фатеев, Ю. С., and И. В. Плужников. "Development of Symbolic and Semantic Systems in Schizophrenia: А View through the Prism of Psychoanalysis." Психиатрия, психотерапия и клиническая психология, no. 1 (February 15, 2023): 77–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.34883/pi.2023.14.1.006.

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В рамках культурно-исторического подхода к расстройствам мышления при шизофрении в качестве центрального дефекта выделяется патологическое функционирование понятийного аппарата (знаково-символической системы) и динамической смысловой системы. В настоящей статье делается попытка рассмотреть данные нарушения в их онтогенетическом развитии с учетом того вклада, который может внести психоаналитический подход в понимание их причин. Данные теоретические школы являются наиболее разработанными подходами в изучении развития индивида, однако делают в нем различные акценты. Так, культурно-историческая психология в большей степени опирается на развитие мышления и роль значения в организации психических функций, а психоанализ – на роль раннего опыта в развитии эмоциональной регуляции, Эго, защитных механизмов. Психоаналитический подход, особенно теория объектных отношений, позволяет раскрыть специфику аффективной сферы и диадического взаимодействия, а также появление символа на ранних этапах онтогенеза, которые обуславливают развитие смыслового поля и символической функции. Особый акцент в рамках психоанализа делается на детском опыте, ведущем к различным патологиям, включая возможные нарушения символической функции при расстройствах шизофренического спектра. Структуралистский подход в понимании психоза, представленный Ж. Лаканом, позволяет увидеть точки пересечения между данными концепциями, проведя параллели между нарушениями в формировании означающего у человека с психотическим уровнем функционирования и нарушениями предметной отнесенности, а в последующем понятийного аппарата при шизофрении. Within the framework of the cultural and historical approach to thought disorders in schizophrenia, the pathological functioning of the conceptual apparatus (symbolic system) and the dynamic semantic system is singled out as a central defect. This article attempts to examine these disorders in their ontogenetic progression, taking into account the contribution that the psychoanalytic approach may have in understanding their causes. These theoretical schools represent the most developed approaches in studying the evolution of individuality, but they emphasize it in different ways. Thus, cultural-historical psychology relies mostly on the development of thinking and the role of meaning in organizing mental functions, while psychoanalysis focuses on the role of early experience in the development of emotional regulation, the ego, and defense mechanisms. The psychoanalytic approach, especially the theory of object relations, allows revealing the specificity of the affective sphere and dyadic interaction, as well as the appearance of a symbol in the early stages of ontogenesis, which determine the development of the meaning field and the symbolic function. Particular emphasis within psychoanalysis is given to childhood experiences leading to various pathologies, including eventual disturbances of symbolic function in schizophrenic spectrum disorders. The structuralist approach to understanding psychosis, presented by J. Lacan, allows seeing points of intersection between these approaches, drawing parallels between disturbances in the formation of the signifier in an individual with a psychotic level of functioning and disturbances in object relations, and subsequently the conceptual apparatus in schizophrenia.

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Craib, Ian. "Masculinity and Male Dominance." Sociological Review 35, no. 4 (November 1987): 721–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1987.tb00563.x.

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The problems with established sociological and socio-psychological conceptions of masculinity are discussed, and it is argued that object-relations theory can provide a clearer understanding of masculinity. An ideal type of the development of masculinity is built up in contrast to similar ideal types of human development and the development of femininity as portrayed by recent feminist writers. The status of the ideal type is then discussed, drawing out its implications for the relationship between psychoanalysis and sociological analysis, and for the nature of social change.

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Bueskens, Petra. "Mothers reproducing the social: Chodorow and beyond." Journal of Psychosocial Studies 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 65–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/147867320x15803493144767.

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In The reproduction of mothering, Nancy Chodorow laid the blueprint for understanding mothers and daughters in their intricate psychosexual identification and differentiation. Synthesising object relations theory with feminist sociological concerns regarding gender equality, and the psychosocial reproduction not just of mothering but also of misogyny, Chodorow brought together complex psychoanalytic theory with feminist utopian projects. The mother‐daughter relationship had been hitherto dismissed in orthodox psychoanalysis as irrelevant to the central Oedipal drama. In situating mother‐daughter relations both within the classic ‘family romance’, and also prior to and constitutive of it, Chodorow bequeathed a critically important legacy. She provided a new psychological language for understanding female subjectivity, inclusive of yet differentiating the mother’s and the daughter’s subjectivity. This article reviews Chodorow’s classic work, The reproduction of mothering, while also extending her original formulation to a contemporary understanding of changing gendered social relations. Drawing on the recent work of Alison Stone, I elucidate the process of not only reproducing but also reinventing mothering. From here, I tentatively explore how mothers are symbolically and actually ‘reproducing the social’; or, taking their maternal identities into civil society and transforming that society to incorporate and reflect their interests. Citizen mothers, I argue, have the potential to transform human relations, economies and polities, integrating an ‘ethic of care’ with an ‘ethic of justice’. The last section of this article explores the emergence of ‘autonomous mothers’ and their impact.

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Newirth, Joseph. "When Relatedness is Damaged or Undeveloped: A New Consideration of the Link between Relational Psychoanalysis and Object Relations Theory." Psychoanalytic Dialogues 26, no. 6 (November 2016): 713–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2016.1237804.

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Westerink, Herman, and Philippe Van Haute. "‘Family Romance’ and the Oedipalization of Freudian Psychoanalysis." Psychoanalysis and History 22, no. 2 (August 2020): 175–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/pah.2020.0336.

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Although Freud's ‘Family Romances’ from 1909 is hardly ever discussed at length in secondary literature, this article highlights this short essay as an important and informative text about Freud's changing perspectives on sexuality in the period in which the text was written. Given the fact that Freud, in his 1905 Three Essays, develops a radical theory of infantile sexuality as polymorphously perverse and as autoerotic pleasure, we argue that ‘Family Romances’, together with the closely related essay on infantile sexual theories (1908), paves the way for new theories of sexuality defined in terms of object relations informed by knowledge of sexual difference. ‘Family Romances’, in other words, preludes the introduction of the Oedipus complex, but also – interestingly – gives room for a Jungian view of sexuality and sexual phantasy. ‘Family Romances’ is thus a good illustration of the complex way in which Freud's theories of sexuality developed through time.

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Lockwood, George. "Psychoanalysis and the Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders." Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy 6, no. 1 (January 1992): 25–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0889-8391.6.1.25.

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Personality disorders, through a series of vicious cycles and self-fulfilling prophecies, usually skew interactions and events in a manner that confirms the preexisting cognitive distortions. As a result, therapy often becomes part of the problem rather than the problem part of the therapy. Cognitive therapists can benefit in dealing with this phenomenon by drawing on recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and technique. Object-relations theory views problems in the therapeutic relationship as a function of internalized representations of early child-parent interactions being projected onto the relationship (the cognitive equivalent of schemas being triggered within the therapeutic relationship.) Treatment can be enhanced by taking advantage of this process as the therapist acts as a participant-observer, helping the client clarify the projections (schemas) and then test and correct them, in part, through having a new kind of interpersonal experience with the therapist (encountering new evidence in the here-and-now), and then re-internalizing a new self-image and set of assumptions about others.

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McCluskey, Meghann J. "Psychoanalysis and Domestic Violence: Exploring the Application of Object Relations Theory in Social Work Field Placement." Clinical Social Work Journal 38, no. 4 (March 24, 2010): 435–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10615-010-0266-5.

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Mackewn, Jenny. "Respectful Dialogues - Lynne Jacobs interviewed by Jenny Mackewn." British Gestalt Journal 9, no. 2 (December 1, 2000): 105–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.53667/zpej2757.

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"Editor's Note: The British Gesdt Journal is pIeased to publish the follawing intewiew with Lynne Jacobs, who kribes herself as a 'Gestalt analyst'. Lynne Jacobs teaches, writes, and studies both Gestalt therapy and psychoanalysis. Lynne, who acknowledges she 'loves living in both worlds' is co-founder, with Gary Yontef, of the Gestalt Therapy Institute of the Pacific and is also a training and supervising analyst at the Institure of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. In this interview, she describes, the development of her twin career, her passionate interest in 'relational themes', the lids with intersubjectivity and object relations theorists, and her interest in working to explore character structure. Redefining msference, and also the traditional GestaIt %interruptions to contact', she concludes the interview with acknowledging how important it can be to 'make mistakes'. We are grateful to Jenny Mackewn, for her perceptive questioning and for her framing of an outstanding interview with one of Gestalt's contemporary leading thinkers."

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Patrick, Matthew, R. Peter Hobson, David Castle, Robert Howard, and Barbara Maughan. "Personality disorder and the mental representation of early social experience." Development and Psychopathology 6, no. 2 (1994): 375–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579400004648.

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AbstractControversy surrounds the role of early social experience in the development of personality disorder. In particular, little is known of the means by which continuities from infancy through adulthood might be mediated. One suggestion is that a person's mental representations of relations between him- or herself and other people, either in the form of “internal working models” or “internal object relations,” provide the essential link. We report on an investigation of this issue in which we focused on the formal qualities of accounts of childhood offered by adults who were drawn from two contrasting clinical groups; borderline personality disorder and dysthymia. The results lend support to the claims made by attachment theory and the object relations school of psychoanalysis, that at least in certain groups of individuals, adults' modes of representing early experience are intimately related to styles of interpersonal functioning. More specifically, the form of interpersonal Psychopathology characteristic of borderline personality disorder may be associated with enmeshed and unresolved patterns of responding to the Adult Attachment Interview of George, Kaplan, and Main (1985) and with reports of low maternal care and high maternal overprotection on the Parental Bonding Instrument of Parker, Tupling, and Brown (1979).

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Verovšek, Peter J. "Social criticism as medical diagnosis? On the role of social pathology and crisis within critical theory." Thesis Eleven 155, no. 1 (November 20, 2019): 109–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513619888663.

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The critical theory of the Frankfurt School starts with an explanatory-diagnostic analysis of the social pathologies of the present followed by anticipatory-utopian reflection on possible treatments for these disorders. This approach draws extensively on parallels to medicine. I argue that the ideas of social pathology and crisis that pervade the methodological writings of the Frankfurt School help to explain critical theory’s contention that the object of critique identifies itself when social institutions cease to function smoothly. However, in reflecting on the role that reason and self-awareness play in the second stage of social criticism, I contend that this model is actually better conceptualized through the lens of the psychoanalyst rather than the physician. Although the first generation’s explicit commitment to psychoanalysis has dissipated in recent critical theory, faith in a rationalized ‘talking cure’ leading to greater self-awareness of existing pathologies remains at the core of the Frankfurt School.

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Blumenfeld Hoadley, Judi, Sarah Calvert, Gustavo Restivo, and Mark Thorpe. "Three Approaches to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand." Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand 20, no. 2 (December 30, 2016): 111–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.9791/ajpanz.2016.11.

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This paper discusses three styles of psychoanalytic psychotherapy commonly practiced in Aotearoa New Zealand. Judi Blumenfeld Hoadley writes on object relations, Gustavo Restivo on the Lacanian orientation, and Sarah Calvert on relational psychoanalysis and the relational movement. Each author discusses their specific orientation towards psychoanalytic psychotherapy in terms of the historical origins, seminal theorists, and philosophical views. They also articulate the key theoretical concepts, clinical techniques, and unique links to the therapeutic relationship. Finally, the authors point out the specific organisations, training, and conferences available in Aotearoa New Zealand. Waitara Ko tā tēnei tuhinga he matapakinga o ētahi momo kakenga mahi whakaora hinengaro mahia ai i Aotearoa Niu Tireni. Ko tā Hūria Purumanawheri Hoari, arā, Judi Blumenfeld Hoadley he titiro ki ngā pānga tupua, ko tā Karitawa Rehitio, arā, Gustavo Restivo, he titiro ki te aronga ā-Rakaniana, ā, ko tā Hera Kariwhata, arā Sarah Calvert, he titiro ki te whaiaro tātarihanga me ōna pānga nekenekehanga. Ka huri ia kaituhi ki tōna ake tūranga whakapā atu ki te tūnga a te tātarihanga whakaora hinengaro mai i ōna pūnga ake, ngā whakapaenga whakahiranga me ngā tirohanga wānanga. Ka whakaarahia ake hoki e rātou ngā aroro ariā, ngā momo haumanu, me ngā here ki te piringa haumanu. I te mutunga, ka tohua ake e ngā kaituhi ngā rōpū.

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Epstein, Orit. "FROM PROXIMITY SEEKING TO RELATIONSHIP SEEKING: WORKING TOWARDS SEPARATION FROM THE “SCAREGIVERS”." Frontiers in the Psychotherapy of Trauma and Dissociation 2 (2018): 290–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.46716/ftpd.2018.0016.

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Traditionally psychoanalysis showed interest in the child’s ambivalent relationship towards the object. Psychoanalysis also did not put great emphasis on the role of fear in a child’s life, in particular fear that has been inflicted by the caregivers (Slade, 2013). It was Mary Main who placed fear in the face of attachment needs and named it as disorganized attachment style. The research findings have given us a new lens into the way we see human behavior as displayed in many of our traumatized clients. The child’s need for both protection and autonomy are universal and has been at the heart of object relations and attachment theories. It is there where matters of core-relatedness and a developed sense of self are most involved. This paper discusses a client who suffered extensive sexual abuse. Her attachment to her mother, who I called her “scaregiver,” was preoccupied, enmeshed and coercive as well as being disorganized. The lack of boundaries and the controlling relationship the client had with her mother was re-enacted in the therapeutic dyad. This paper explores these dynamics and how attachment-based psychotherapy enabled a move towards safety for the client followed by better functioning, and more so enabled her to move towards intersubjectivity, a deeper understanding of her lack of boundaries, separateness and need for autonomy.

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Kantrowitz, Judy L., Ann L. Katz, Frank Paolitto, Jerome Sashin, and Leonard Solomon. "Changes in the Level and Quality of Object Relations in Psychoanalysis: Followup of A Longitudinal, Prospective Study." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 35, no. 1 (February 1987): 23–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000306518703500102.

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Somerville, Jennifer. "The Sexuality of Men and the Sociology of Gender." Sociological Review 37, no. 2 (May 1989): 277–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1989.tb00030.x.

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In recent years writers in the field of the sociology of gender have turned to psychoanalysis for insights into the psychological dimensions of female sexuality. The same insights are now being applied to the analysis of masculinity. This paper argues that the full advantages of this are undermined by the adoption of an object-relations perspective which restores the social determinism from which many such writers seek to escape. This argument is pursued through a detailed analysis of one recent text in the field – The Sexuality of Men (eds) A. Metcalf and M. Humphries (1985) – but is applied more widely to the treatment of sexuality in the sociology of gender.

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Prstačić, Miroslav. "Museum of Charms and Fetish Objects in Nigeria." Collegium antropologicum 46, no. 2 (2022): 159–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5671/ca.46.2.11.

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On the assumption, upon which perception may be considered as an associative integration of available memory pictures or archetypes as universal thought forms, the deep ecological, cross-cultural and holistic approach is conceived for two complementary areas of research: 1) contemplations about the anthropological traits of imagination, symbolic meanings of museum objects, culture, archetype image symbols and induced associations; 2) meditation on the notion of man in the language and culture of Igbo people in Nigeria, and group visual art expression. These contents are discussed with reference to some knowledge in archetypology, neuroscience, semiotics, fine and other arts, psychoanalysis, sophrology, museology and other related areas. Culture is considered as a way of life which embraces the customs and beliefs, arts, rituals, mentality, religious leaning of the people and historically transmitted patterns of symbols. Three subjects, who graduated in philosophy and/or theology at the Nigerian University, were involved in these activities. Their role in the research workshops extended to that of active participants as listeners, observers and researchers. Museum collections are considered as traditional religious objects, as artistic or ornamental objects, as charms and fetish objects. In a broader sense, and with a review on psychoanalytic theory of object relations and other related areas, some contemplation is shown about the complex history and meaning of the word charms, fetish and related terms, and about creativity, beliefs and human coping mechanisms with various problem areas. In this context, the importance of the catalytic role of education and the heritage mission of the Nigerian museum is highlighted. Research activities were carried out in the Museum of Charms and Fetish Objects in Main Campus of Madonna University and National Pilgrimage Centre in Elele, Nigeria.

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Bartlett, Vanessa. "Psychosocial curating: a theory and practice of exhibition-making at the intersection between health and aesthetics." Medical Humanities 46, no. 4 (October 9, 2019): 417–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011694.

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A recent Manifesto for a Visual Medical Humanities suggested that more in-depth analysis of the contribution of visual art to medical humanities is urgently required. This need perhaps arises because artists and curators experience conflict between the experimental approaches and tacit knowledge that drive their practice and existing audience research methods used in visitor studies or arts marketing. In this paper, I adopt an innovative psychosocial method—uniquely suited to evidencing aesthetic experiences—to examine how an exhibition of my own curation facilitated audiences to undertake psychological processing of complex ideas about mental distress. I consider the curator working in a health context as a creator of care-driven environments where complex affects prompted by aesthetic approaches to illness can be digested and processed. My definition of care is informed by psychosocial studies and object relations psychoanalysis, which allows me to approach my exhibitions as supportive structures that enable a spectrum of affects and emotions to be encountered. The key argument of the paper is that concepts from object relations psychoanalysis can help to rethink the point of entanglement between curating and health as a process of preparing the ground for audiences to do generative psychological work with images and affects. The case study is Group Therapy: Mental Distress in a Digital Age, an exhibition that was iterated at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), UK and University of New South Wales Galleries Sydney, with an emphasis on audience response to key artworks such as Madlove—A Designer Asylum (2015) by the vacuum cleaner and Hannah Hull. It is hoped that this paper will help to reaffirm the significance of curating as a cultural platform that supports communities to live with the anxieties prompted by society’s most complex medical and social issues.

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