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This report describes an approach to studying the ways in which psychotherapy patients create and interpret “mental representations” of their psychotherapists and the psychotherapeutic process both during therapy and after termination. We will briefly present our concepts, method and some normative data regarding the complex processes which recreate within self-experience qualities and functions originally experienced in our relationships with external others. Our framework embraces the data and concepts of contemporary development psychology and the contributions of the object-relations branch of psychoanalytic theory.
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Geller, J.D., Behrends, R.S., Hartley, D. (1983). The Therapist Representation Inventory: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations. In: Shorr, J.E., Sobel-Whittington, G., Robin, P., Connella, J.A. (eds) Theoretical and Clinical Applications. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1179-9_5
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