Cover; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Chapter One On the psychoanalytic theory of motivation; Chapter Two The striving for "identity of perception"; Chapter Three On role-responsiveness; Chapter Four On object relations and affects; Chapter FlVe Character traits and object relations; Chapter Six Stranger anxiety and internal objects; Chapter Seven Comments on the psychodynamics of interaction; Chapter Eight A theory of internal object relations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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The authors show how their ego-psychological object relations theory integrates drive theory and object relations theory and does justice to recent findings regarding the vicissitudes of transference and countertransference interactions in the psycho- analytic situation. 169 pages.