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Capacities for integration, oedipal ambivalence, and imaginary companions

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  1. Fordham University, USA

    Naomi Gabriella Rucker Ph.D. (Faculty, Chief Psychologist)

  2. Howard Beach Child Guidance and Family Counseling Center, USA

    Naomi Gabriella Rucker Ph.D. (Faculty, Chief Psychologist)

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“When children are playing alone on the green, In comes the playmate that never was seen.”

Robert Louis Stevenson “The Unseen Playmate,” 1923

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Rucker, N.G. Capacities for integration, oedipal ambivalence, and imaginary companions. Am J Psychoanal 41, 129–137 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01253717

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