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Mental Representations in Personality Development, Psychopathology, and the Therapeutic Process
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This article considers the construct of mental representation from the perspectives of psychoanalytic object-relations theory and cognitive developmental psychology and the congruence of these formulations with research and theory in cognitive science and social cognition. Concepts of mental representation are applied to the study of psychopathology, personality assessment, interpersonal relationships or attachment styles, and therapeutic progress in the long-term, inpatient treatment of seriously disturbed adolescents and young adults. Understanding of personality development, psychopathology, and the therapeutic process is greatly enhanced by this constructivist perspective, which considers the construction of mental representations or cognitive–affective schemas to be a central constituent of personality development and organization.
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“Bowlby borrowed fundamental ideas from the ethologist Konrad Lorenz— in particular, the theory of imprinting (Lorenz, 1935) —and successfully combined them with psychoanalytic developmental theories of object relating (e.g., Holmes, 1993; Blatt et al., 1997; Wachtel, 2010; Fonagy et al., 2018).”
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- Authors
- Blatt, S. J., Auerbach, J. S., & Levy, K. N.
- Affiliations
- City University of New York (US)
- Veterans Health Administration (US)
- Venue
- Review of General Psychology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1997-12
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 351-374
- ISSN
- 1089-2680 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1552
- OpenAlex
- W2090354017
- Cited by
- 217
- References
- 200
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 4.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Review of General Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychology and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Keywords
- mental representation, personality development, psychopathology, attachment styles, interpersonal relationships, treatment advances, adolescents and young adults, constructivist approach, social cognition
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