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Companion Animals as Selfobjects
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This research examined whether self psychology could be systematically applied to human–animal relationships. Twenty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted, which consisted of 16 questions designed to illuminate selfobject needs. The interviews were intended to identify whether the horse/dog/cat/rabbit was a selfobject, that is, a provider of self-cohesion, self esteem, calmness, soothing, and acceptance, for the participant and, if so, whether the primary type(s) of selfobject was mirroring, idealizing, or twinship. Results revealed that self psychology could be applied successfully to human–animal relationships, that it could usually be determined whether the animal served a selfobject function, and that selfobject type was generally able to be established. In this sample, animals rivaled and even surpassed humans in their ability to provide important selfobject needs.
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“Keeping pets as an extension of the self implies that they are seen as expressions of the individual’s identity and as part of the person, and thus remaining without them is not conceivable; seeing animals as part of the self involves having an emotional attachment towards them and not just a functional one [97,98].”
From The Complexity of the Human–Animal Bond: Empathy, Attachment and Anthropomorphism in Human–Animal Relationships and Animal Hoarding (2022) · cites this paper as [98]
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- Authors
- Brown, S.-E.
- Affiliations
- Center for the Study of Human-Animal Interdependent Relationships, School of Veterinary Medicine, Tuskegee University, USA
- Venue
- Anthrozoös
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2007-12
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 329-343
- ISSN
- 0892-7936
- 1753-0377
- Cited by
- 50
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
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