... views into the theory of infantile instinctual drives as the motivating force for normal behavior and, when miscarried, as the cause of neurosis. Drive psychology gradually expanded into a closer study of the ego's ways of coping with the instinctual drive, the so-called ego psychology. Continuing research has discovered much evidence that the early relationships between children and parents, the ... . Absence of or faulty self- object experiences cause a loss of cohesion with attendant fragmentation of the self. In addition to their clinical application, psychoanalytic theories have bee...

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