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Mental Health in Residential Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Role of Selfobject Needs [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
The COVID-19 outbreak has affected healthcare across all levels. Older adults and those with chronic illness are at greatest risk for infection complications and mortality, which presents significant psychological distress for residential healthcare ...
Eamonn P. Arble   +3 more
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The forward edge transference within self-psychology and the activation of inborn capacity through interpretation and internalization [PDF]

open access: yesResearch in Psychotherapy, 2021
This paper builds on the ideas of self-psychologists Marian Tolpin and Richard Geist in two ways. Firstly, the idea of using forward edge transference as fostering the promotion of psychological health and well-being.
Zelda G. Knight
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Chemical Reactions, Drowning Swimmers, Owner's Manuals: The Power of Metaphors in Couple Therapy [PDF]

open access: yesFamily Process, Volume 65, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Over many years of working with couples, I have found that certain metaphors—drawn from images, films, stories, jokes, song lyrics, research findings, or events in my life—can be especially effective and memorable in clarifying and normalizing the diverse experiences of distressed couples.
Arthur C. Nielsen
wiley   +2 more sources

Mediating role of defense mechanisms and dimensions of the interpersonal relation-ship in the relationship between selfobject needs and personality disorders

open access: yesKlinik Psikoloji Dergisi, 2023
Especially in the early stages of life, met or unmet the selfobject needs has an important role in the development of personality. The literature has revealed evidence that approaching and defensively avoiding selfobject needs may be associated with ...
Nuran Bingöl, Yıldız Bilge
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Systematic Investigation of the Effectiveness of Self Psychology Approach in Treatment of Mental Health Disorders

open access: yesPsikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar, 2021
The aim of this study was to review systematically the scientific literature on the effectiveness of the self-psychology approach in improving mental health disorders.
Ayşe Gök
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“Like stepping on glass”: A theoretical model to understand the emotional experience of childhood parentification

open access: yesFamily Relations, Volume 72, Issue 5, Page 3029-3048, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Objective This purpose of this article is to contribute to the literature on the lived experiences of parentification, its long‐term consequences to the self, and coping strategies related to parentification. Background A considerable number of quantitative studies have reported on the adverse consequences of destructive or pathological ...
Shirley Schorr, Limor Goldner
wiley   +1 more source

On the Supervisee's Future Orientation

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychotherapy, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 274-289, May 2023., 2023
While exploring the supervisee's implicit contribution to therapeutic interactions, the supervisor can focus on the supervisee's future orientation instead of exploring transference manifestations that might arouse the supervisee's anxiety. I suggest that future orientation is shaped by an implicit urge described in the analytic literature as an ...
Hanoch Yerushalmi
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of mothers' self cohesion when their children diagnosed with cancer (eng)

open access: yesKlinik Psikiyatri Dergisi, 2020
Background: Having a child with cancer has an enormous impact on their mothers. Usually mothers describe their feeling as 'losing some part of themselves'.
Sema Yurduşen   +2 more
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Selfobjects in Psychosis—The Twinship Compensation [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Psychotherapy, 1996
Psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who work with psychotic patients often encounter unusual clinical phenomena. In this article, a certain kind of phenomena is described, wherein the patient refers to a body part of the therapist as being owned by the patient.
D A, Garfield, M, Tolpin
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Establishing the “area of need” through optimal responsiveness: Yoga/Psychotherapy for childhood sexual abuse survivors

open access: yesCogent Psychology, 2019
Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) causes severe harm to the self, halts its development and fractures it. Some of these harmful effects are caused by the interaction between the physical domain, where the abuse occurs, and the self; however, the physical is ...
Ephrat Havron, Yael Itzhak- Edan
doaj   +1 more source

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