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Object Relations Theory

Diamond Approach

Glossary of Spiritual Wisdom

From the teachings of A.H. Almaas

Object Relations Theory

Object relations theory has become the dominant psychoanalytic theory of ego development. Its main insight is that the ego develops, primarily through the integration of early experiences, into organized mental structures. These mental structures, termed ego structures, are systems of memories that have become organized through the processes of assimilation or introjection, identification, integration, synthesis, and so on, into an overall schema patterning the self.

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