Object Relations Psychology

Gestalt Therapy techniques are considered to be powerful tools for the remobilization of human growth and change. I will attempt to show that the power of these techniques lies in the fact that they are effective ways of dealing with our "internalizations". I will first briefly review object relation theory and then discuss gestalt techniques as they pertain to internal objects.

Korean Americans underutilize mental health services even when enduring severe emotional disturbances and intrapsychic pain. Many factors revolving around cultural stigma, lack of outreach, language barriers, and fundamental misunderstandings of mental health services have contributed to avoidance of professional help. In the events where Korean Americans have been able to cross cultural barriers and seek help, they have often been met with services that are culturally inappropriate, which has led to dropout or further psychological distress. The current qualitative study explored the lived experiences of Korean Americans who had utilized psychotherapy. I focused on what dynamics the Korean American client found to be helpful and unhelpful in the psychotherapeutic relationship. The justification for focusing on the therapy relationship was due to research by Norcross (2011) which found the alliance in psychotherapy to be one of the most important dynamics that can prevent premature termination or dropout. Eight participants of Korean American descent were sampled and provided semistructured interviews to collect data regarding their lived experiences in treatment. The results will be beneficial to mental health clinicians and psychotherapy educators, as they may assist in modifying existing theories to better meet the emotional needs of Korean American clientele.

This article analyzes A Two-Year-Old Goes to Hospital, a documentary film made by James Robertson in 1952. The film records the 8-day hospitalization of 2.5-year-old Laura as she goes through the phases of protest, despair, and detachment (Robertson and Bowlby 1952, Bowlby 1960) from her mother, who is only allowed to visit her briefly once a day. A Two-Year-Old Goes to Hospital forms part of Robertson’s decades-long campaign to promote changes in hospital regulations concerning parental presence in pediatric wards. During that time, it was commonly believed that such visits were unnecessary and disruptive, alleviating excessive maternal anxiety rather than serving the needs of the child. Robertson, who strongly opposed this belief, decided to use a visual medium rather than advance academic arguments, convinced that “visual communication pierces defenses as the spoken word cannot do.” This article argues that A Two-Year-Old Goes to Hospital, even though it follows a conventional do...

Semantically, objects in unstructured document are related each other to perform a certain entity relation. This certain entity relation such: drug-drug interaction through their compounds, buyer-seller relationship through the goods or services, etc. Motivated by that kind of interaction, this study proposes a method to extract those objects and their interactions. It is presented a general framework of object-interaction mining of large corpora. The framework is started with the initial step in extracting a single object in the unstructured document. In this study, the initial step is a pattern learning method that is applied to drug-label documents to extract drug-names. We utilize an existing external knowledge to identify a certain regular expressions surrounding the targeted object and the probabilities of that regular expression, to perform the pattern learning process. The performance of this pattern learning approach is promising to apply in this relation extraction area. A...

semantically, objects in unstructured document are related each other to perform a certain entity relation. This certain entity relation such: drug-drug interaction through their compounds, buyer-seller relationship through the goods or services, etc. Motivated by that kind of interaction, this study proposes a method to extract those objects and their interactions. It is presented a general framework of object-interaction mining of large corpora. The framework is started with the initial step in extracting a single object in the unstructured document. In this study, the initial step is a pattern learning method that is applied to drug-label documents to extract drug-names. We utilize an existing external knowledge to identify a certain regular expressions surrounding the targeted object and the probabilities of that regular expression, to perform the pattern learning process. The performance of this pattern learning approach is promising to apply in this relation extraction area. A...

Explores how Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within "the kid," and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly -- as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic "hero" for us; it is the impression of the desire for that, that the text foremost advances, the singular and exceptional that we can associate with, borrow esteem off of.

Explores how "Ode to a Grecian Urn" reads as a discovery of the discovery for the poet of the importance of an object, not primarily as something he might master, but something he submits to. Story of the withdrawal of status, and re-projection of "art," status, onto an object, after brief experience of the effects of being abandoned its authority.

Explores Maureen Folan, in Martin McDonagh's "The Beauty Queen of Leenane," as a psychological borderline, someone who is afraid to achieve a man she can have a relationship with, and so defaults to using him as simply another object she can use in warfare against a mother she is only yet capable of playing at being able to leave behind her.

Explores select works of Matthew Arnold, as well as Robert Browning's "Caliban Upon Setebos" and Edward Fitzgerald's "Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám," for evidence that societal growth during the late 19th-century was done not entirely in hopes of leaving previous authorities behind, of accepting and dealing with felt feelings of being abandoned for their focus on their own selves rather than parental ways; there was evidence of regression, clinging back. Poetry, I am suggesting in this short paper, began to manifest the parental imago in a manner that would either flatter their preferred self-image/conception and thereby be to their liking (with Arnold), or that would presumably draw back their presumably withdrawn attention and interest through newly aroused ire, placing the poet back into a mere bratty kid rather than introducer of the new (Browning, Fitzgerald).

Explores the ability of the narrator to be honest with the difficulties -- not displace, repress, elide/evade concerns -- they had in their mother-child relationship, in several works of literature, including Cocteau's "Les Enfants Terribles," Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women." and Andrea Ashworth's "Once in a House on Fire."

The goal of Buddhism is to gain enlightenment through the realization of the psychological basis of human suffering. Like other religions Buddhists undertake this goal together in a community known as the Sangha, which, includes lay practitioners, clergy, and various symbolic figures. While, the ostensible goal of the Sangha is to help Buddhists reach a state of religious epiphany, it also functions in a psychological fashion to moderate the regressive effects of group membership. This moderation allows the Sangha to facilitate individuation for its members while they maintain their group membership. In this way the Sangha provides a practical method for applying spiritual principals to relationships with others in the group and later, to the world at large. This paper will review classical and object relations views of group psychology and then apply these perspectives to the understanding of the Sangha.