This article examines the political contents of object relations psychoanalysis, a theory that perceives dependence as the natural state of all humans. Unlike the views advanced by the classical state ...

Applying knowledge from Melanie Klein’s object relations theory may be useful when dealing with a narcissist. Often a person with strong narcissistic tendencies relates to the people closest to ...

Anne Hockmeyer, Object Relations Theory and Feminism: Strange Bedfellows, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1988), pp. 20-28 ...

Object relations theory may be useful when dealing with a narcissist who manipulates and controls by playing favorites.