Self Psychology

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largest contributer

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Keniz Kohut

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Different from psychondymic theory

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acknoweldges interrationship between social structure and personality development

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model of personality development

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infant's instinctual drives are separate from the attainment of a cohesive self

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Children are born into what?

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warm nuturing environments comprised of self-objects

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Empatheic mirroring

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process of development in which child mirrors self-object with help of nurturing parents

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Different from object relations theory

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believes that it is the self-self-object realtionship that is central to the psychologicla functioning and not the self-object relationsihp

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transmuting internalization

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process in which an indivdiual atttains a cohesive self by transforming positive healthy objets into an internalized self-structure

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inovlves incorporation of fucntions iwn which the object performs for the child into the child's self

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Narcissism

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part of normal and abornal development. 2 types- one toward self and other toward object

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Abnormal narcissism

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occurs when child is deprived of empathetic environment. Without empathetic mirroring, a child is unable to transform the initial grandiose and idealized images of the self and objects into a realistic and healthy self