Object relations in psychoanalytic theory

Origins

Object relations and psychoanalytic models

Sigmund Freud: the drive/structure model

Sigmund Freud : the strategy of accommodation

Interpersonal psychoanalysis

Alternatives

Melanie Klein

W.R.D. Fairbairn

D.W. Winnicott and Harry Guntrip

Accommodation

Heinz Hartmann

Margaret Mahler

Edith Jacobson and Otto Kernberg

Implications

Mixed model strategies: Heinz Kohut and Joseph Sandler

Diagnosis and technique: a deeper divergence.