Transpersonal processes: a bridge between object relations and attachment theory in normal and psychopathological development.
This paper has three aims: (a) to present the further development of the concept of transpersonal processes and the bimodal theory of relational cognition; (b) to show how the bimodal concept illuminates developmental theory and facilitates the move from object relations theory toward a relational systems model; and (c) to show how the attachment paradigm and the notions of internal working models (Bowlby, 1973) and self-reflective capacity (Fonagy, 1991) are both congruent and synergistic with the transpersonal and bimodal concepts.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, C.M. Hincks Institute, Ontario, Canada.
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D000328:Adult; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012649:Self Concept