Conceptualizing Our Interpersonal Impressions: Mental Representations and Internal Objects

✍ Scribed by Gillian Steggles

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Dr Steggles has accomplished an unusual work. The field of psychoanalysis has forever spawned new ideas, ever since Sigmund Freud, Sandor Ferenczi, and Carl Jung went on their trip together to the New World, and came back less friendly than when they started out. It seems the fate of new ideas is to jostle each other, without making contact; it is the people in possession of the ideas who compete and challenge and in the end part company without much recognition of each other.

✦ Table of Contents

List of Figures.............................................................................................. x
List of Tables .............................................................................................. xi
Foreword ................................................................................................... xii
Bob Hinshelwood
Preface ....................................................................................................... xv
Acknowledgements ................................................................................. xvii
Introduction ................................................................................................. 1
Part I: Mental Representations: A Historical Review
Chapter One ................................................................................................. 8
The Early History of the Concept of “Mental Representations”
Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 14
Re-Interpretation of Freud’s Concept of Representations
Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 23
Contemporary Interpretations of the “Mental Representation” Concept
Part II: Internal Objects: A Historical Review
Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 36
Origins and Development of the Concept of “Internal Objects”
Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 46
Consolidation of Klein’s Concept of Internal Objects
Chapter Six ................................................................................................ 56
Contemporary Contributors to the “Internal Object” Concept
Part III: The Freud-Klein Controversies: A Comparison of Mental
Representations and Internal Objects
Chapter Seven ............................................................................................ 68
Melanie Klein and Anna Freud
Chapter Eight ............................................................................................. 78
Debate about Internal Objects
Chapter Nine .............................................................................................. 84
Conceptualizing Internal Objects
Chapter Ten ............................................................................................... 91
Joseph Sandler’s Contribution to the Relationship between Mental
Representations and Internal Objects
Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 108
Contemporary Advocates of Mental Representations and Internal
Objects and a Historical Review
Part IV: The Study
Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 116
Methodologies Contemplated
Chapter Thirteen ...................................................................................... 127
Methodologies Utilized
Chapter Fourteen ..................................................................................... 139
Preparations for the Study
Chapter Fifteen ........................................................................................ 153
The Pilot Study
Chapter Sixteen ....................................................................................... 161
The Study
Part V: Results and Data Analysis
Chapter Seventeen ................................................................................... 170
Results of the Study
Chapter Eighteen ..................................................................................... 188
Data Analysis of the Study
Part VI: Discussion and Conclusions
Chapter Nineteen ..................................................................................... 208
Discussion and Conclusions of the Study
Appendix A: The Questionnaire .............................................................. 218
Appendix B: Participant 1’s Mother Transcript (processed) ................... 224
Appendix C: Participant 2’s Film Star Transcript (processed) ................ 227
Bibliography ............................................................................................ 231
Index ........................................................................................................ 243