The Poet and the Laws of Life: Narcissism and Object Relatedness in Ibsen’s Late Plays

2016 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-324
Author(s):  
Jon Morgan Stokkeland
Keyword(s):  
Object Relatedness

Our Father Which Art in Heaven: Parataxic Distortions in the Image of God

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Heinrichs
Keyword(s):  
Image Of God ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
Object Relations Theory ◽  
God Concept ◽  
Relational Experiences ◽  
Biblical History ◽  
Object Relatedness ◽  
Perceptions Of God ◽  
The Image Of God

One's God-concept, herein referred to as the “image of God,” is a major determinant of the quality of one's personal relationship with God. In addition, the image of God one maintains may be observed to correlate with one's capacity for relational experiences with significant others. In this article object relations theory is applied to perceptions of God. The development of object relatedness in the child is discussed and the concept of parataxic distortions in the image of God is considered within the context of biblical history and childhood development. Parataxic distortions as found in the psychotherapeutic relationship are also briefly addressed, as is the psychotherapeutic resolution of distorted God-percepts.

Top-down analysis of low-level object relatedness leading to semantic understanding of medieval image collections

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradeep Yarlagadda ◽  
Antonio Monroy ◽  
Bernd Carque ◽  
Bjorn Ommer
Keyword(s):  
Top Down ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Object Relatedness

scholarly journals Autism-Spectrum Traits Predict the Embodiment of Manipulation Knowledge about Object Concepts: Evidence from Eyetracking

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles P. Davis ◽  
Inge-Marie Eigsti ◽  
Roisin Healy ◽  
Gitte H. Joergensen ◽  
Eiling Yee
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Autism Spectrum Quotient ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Object A ◽  
Conceptual Representations ◽  
Related Object ◽  
Object Relatedness ◽  
Adult Autism ◽  
Spectrum Characteristics ◽  
Concept Representations

Sensorimotor-based theories of cognition predict that even subtle developmental motor differences, such as those found in individuals on the autism spectrum, affect how we represent the meaning of manipulable objects (e.g., faucet). Here, we test 85 participants, who completed the Adult Autism Spectrum Quotient (to measure autism-spectrum characteristics), on a visual world experiment designed to assess conceptual representations of manipulable objects. Participants heard words referring to manually manipulable objects (e.g., faucet) while we recorded their eye movements to arrays of four objects: the named object, a related object typically manipulated similarly (e.g., jar), and two unrelated objects. Consistent with prior work, we observed more looks to the related object than to the unrelated ones (i.e., a manipulation-relatedness effect). This effect has been taken to reflect overlapping conceptual representations of objects sharing manipulation characteristics (e.g., faucet and jar) due to embodied sensorimotor properties being part of their representations. Critically, we observed that as participant-level autism-spectrum characteristics increased, manipulation-relatedness effects became smaller, whereas in control trials that included a shape (instead of manipulation) related object, relatedness effects increased. The results support the hypothesis that differences in object-concept representations on the autism spectrum emerge at least in part via differences in sensorimotor experience.

A World Of Yesterday

2000 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Gaddini
Keyword(s):  
United States Of America ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Health Unit ◽  
Object Relatedness ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Post War ◽  
Mental Health Unit

This paper is a straightforward account of the historic figures whom the author met in the post-war psychoanalytic scene in Europe and in the United States of America. The author's views on these figures are presented, and on the events which occurred in those years. They now represent for her ‘A World of Yesterday’, in which she gradually came to assume her role as psychoanalyst. Her reflections show a lifelong concern with defending human rights in the early stages of life, as in her first organization of a Mental Health Unit within the pediatric department of her university (Rome) when she returned from the USA in 1950. They also reflect her more recent role as a psychoanalyst on the National Committee of Bioethics and her clinical and theoretical work concerned with the early development of mental life, growth, child abuse, pre-object relatedness and regression.

Was Queen Victoria Depressed? 1. Natural History and Differential Diagnosis of Presenting Problem

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
William E. Powles ◽  
Mary G. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Dysthymic Disorder ◽  
Personal Style ◽  
Ego Functions ◽  
Queen Victoria ◽  
Object Relatedness ◽  
History Of ◽  
Normal Human

For some years we have speculated as to whether Queen Victoria suffered a definable psychiatric illness in her notorious and prolonged seclusion after the Prince Consort's death. We here summarize criteria for grief and depression from three authorities. Against these, we examine the natural history of the Queen's bereavement and restitution. We find that her suffering and her portrayal of the role of widow were related to her personal style and were culturally accepted. Her self-esteem, ego functions, and object relatedness were preserved. While some clinicians might favour a diagnosis of Dysthymic Disorder, we find the evidence strongly in favour of an intense, prolonged, normal human grief (Uncomplicated Bereavement of DSM III) coloured by a romantic and histrionic personal style. Intensity and duration do not, in this case, establish a diagnosis of depression.

Demon Possession or Psychopathology?: A Clinical Differentiation

1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 286-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Millard J. Sall
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Rational Nature ◽  
Demon Possession ◽  
Object Relatedness ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Biblical Perspective ◽  
Mental Pathology

This paper focuses on the distinction between demon possession and mental pathology in response to the phenomenon of increasing occultism in our culture and the sometimes inaccurate judgments of well-meaning Christians. Beginning with a brief discussion of demonology and witchcraft in Western culture, the author continues in presentation of a biblical perspective. The heart and remainder of the treatise deals with the legitimate question, “Is mental illness demon possession?” The contrast and distinction between the two is shown in light of demonic reaction of Jesus, the separate personality, rational nature and object-relatedness of demons, and the difference in cure.

Community Psychiatry — A Hard Look at Feasibility toward a Socioanalytic Understanding

1974 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 555-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Personnel ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Community Psychiatry ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Professional Role ◽  
Object Relatedness ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Community Psychiatrist

This paper has reviewed the concept of community transference and has discussed its relation with the use of illusory phenomena in alleviating the discomfort of maintaining object-relatedness (23), and with nonpathological paranoia as a practically universal phenomenon of human groups (19-21). The importance of community transference in contemporary psychiatry is discussed and its challenge is described to the community psychiatrist who aspires to a clearer definition of his professional role. Training programs for community mental health personnel are proposed as a pragmatic response to a call for effective parsimonious services, and as a plausible alternative to woolly notions of the large scale prevent-ability of mental illness.

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