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What does Object Relations Theory maintain regarding how we interpret objects around us?

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We form certain internal mental representations that are partly based in reality and partly in our own reality.
Class #4 Study notes P 1

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Define Object Relations Theory

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Pathology is defined as unresolved family of origin pain from the past that fosters unhealthy projections and reactivity in the present.
Class #4 Study notes P. 1

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What are the key 3 names associated with Object Relations Theory?

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Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein and Ronald Fairbairn

Class #4 Study notes P. 2

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What does Object Relation Family Therapy seek to do?

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Make the unconscious, conscious.

Class #4 Study notes P. 2

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When can Object Relations Family Therapy be useful?

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When MFTs suspect repressed painful wounds are surfacing in the therapy room.
Class #4 Study notes P.2

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What is the basic human need that Object Relations therapist emphasize?

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The basic human need that people have is for attachment and relationship to others/
Class #4 Study notes P. 3

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What key names are associated with Object Relations Family Therapy?

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James Framo, Nathan Ackerman, David and Jill Scharff, and Samuel Slipp

Class #4 Study notes P. 3

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According to ORFT what is the result of our early experiences with our primary attachments objects?”

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Internal mental representations are formed:
who we are, how we think, how we interpret the world around us.
Class #4 Study notes P. 3

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Describe the Self-Object Concept.

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The basic human need for RELATIONSHIP and ATTACHMENT to others. Therapist assess how people relate to others based on pass expectations developed for early experience with primary attachment objects - mothers.
Class #4 Study notes P. 5

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Making the unconscious conscious has the goal of what?

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Resolving past wounds to positively impact the well being and health of the family at the individual, couple, and family level.
Class #4 Study notes P 4-5

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What is a rejecting object?

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An internal mental representation of the caregiver which interrelated with moments/instances when the child’s needs for attachment were rejected, leading to anger and/or some other negative emotion.
Class #4 Study notes P. 6

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Describe An Exciting Object.

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An internal mental representation of the caregiver formed when the child’s needs for attachment were overstimulated leading to longing for an unattainable but tempting object.
Class #4 Study notes P. 6

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How does Freud define “Splitting”?

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The EGO dividing itself in order to coexist with two conflicting messages.
Nichols P. 167
Class #4 Study notes P. 7

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What is an ideal object?

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An internal mental representation that has a positive impact on our perspective of self and our interactions with others. They make us feel good about ourselves and positively impact our interactions with others.
Class #4 Study notes P. 6

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What did Fairbairn asses to the process of “Splitting”?

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External objects (parents & emotions -affection, anger, resentment) are also involved in the process. And maturity and immaturity is based on how developing children LEARNS TO MANAGE splits involving ego, external objects and emotions. Class #4 Study notes P. 7

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According to Fairbairn, what is the result of failure to syncronize splits within one’s external reality?

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It produces internal conflict that leaks out into the way we relate to external objects (other people) Class #4 Study notes P 8

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Fairbairn posits that maturity and immaturity is based on what?

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How a child learns to manage splits with involve the ego, external objects, and our emotions.
Class #4 Study notes P 8

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In ORFT in what 3 ways do we experience our caregivers?

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As ideal, rejecting or exciting.
Class #4 Study notes P. 5-9
NIchols P. 167

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What are introjections?

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The internal mental images that we have of ourselves and our important objects. How we come to think of ourselves.
Class #4 Study notes P. 9

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What are projections?

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The process by which ones own traits, urges, emotions and dispositions etc, are ascribed to another
Class #4 Study notes P. 10
http://drs-oleary.com/Projective_Identification.htm

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Describe Projective Identification.

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Clients defend against anxiety by PROJECTING certain split-off or unwanted parts of themselves onto the other person, who is then manipulated by these PROJECTIONS. Projections are interactional.
Class #4 Study notes P. 12

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Define Transference

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One person projecting onto another repressed, unwanted feelings and attitudes.
Interactions towards another person are based on certain internalized object relations patterns for a former relationship Class #4 Study notes P. 13

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ORFT assess for transference in what 2 ways?

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  1. From client to therapist
  2. From one family member to another
    Class #4 Study notes P. 13
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How does transference occur?

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When an individual’s interactions towards another individual are based on certain internalized object relations patterns from former relationships (the other actual person AND the internal other).
Class #4 Study notes P 13

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What does a Protective Holding Zone offer after joining has been accomplished?

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A safe zone/safe environment that offers unconditional positive regard to all family members.
Class #4 Study notes P. 14

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What is necessary in order for ORFT to proceed?

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An initial hypothesis.

Class #4 Study notes P 15

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What are the 4 basic techniques in ORFT?

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Listening, Analytic Neutrality, Empathy and Interpretations.
Class #4 Study notes P. 15
Nichols P. 175

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What does the ORFT need to do to establish Analytic Neutrality?

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Concentrate on understanding without problem solving.
Class #4 Study notes P. 16
Nichols P. 175

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How is the technique of Interpretation used in ORFT?

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To clarify hidden aspects of their experience after the family opens up.
Class #4 Study notes P. 16
Nichols P. 175

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What is said about the listening technique in Object Relations Family Therapy?

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The form of ORFT engages in is a strenuous, silent process that requires concentration and effort.
Class #4 Study notes P. 16
Nichols P. 175

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How is the technique of Empathy used in ORFT?

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When necessary intervene by expressing empathy to help the family members open up.
Class #4 Study notes P. 16
Nichols P. 175

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What is the goal of ORFT and why?

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The goal of ORFT is the identification of unconscious inner conflict that is not measured because it is subjective in form.
Class #4 Study notes P. 18
Nichols P. 175

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Through therapy the therapist will probe gently in an efford to….

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a. Elicit history
b. thoughts
c. perspectives
d. feelings.
Class #4 Study notes P. 17
Nichols P. 175

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What is the study of feedback mechanisms in self-regulating systems called?

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Cybernetics

Nichols P. 55