School of thought
A psychodynamic theory that focuses on the relationships between internal representations of self and others.
Founders: Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn
Key principles
- Internal object relationships
- Early infant-caregiver relationships
- Splitting and projection
- Development of the self
- Attachment patterns
Theories in this school
Bion's Object Relations Theory · Fairbairn's endopsychic structural theory · Glover's Object Relations Theory · Harry Guntrip's object relations · Otto Kernberg on Object Relations · Kleinian Theory · Self Psychology · Winnicott's object relations
Psychologists connected (authors and contributors)
Wilfred Ruprecht Bion · William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn · Edward Glover · Henry James Samuel Guntrip · Otto Kernberg · Melanie Klein · Heinz Kohut · Donald Winnicott