Transitional objects (Psychology)
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Transitional objects (Psychology)
- Here are entered works on objects, such as a child's security blanket, which act as comforting agents and in which considerable emotional attachment is invested.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002432
- info:lc/authorities/sh87002432
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh87002432#concept
Instance Of
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Variants
- Attachment objects (Psychology)
- Objects, Transitional (Psychology)
- Solacing objects (Psychology)
- Transitional phenomena (Psychology)
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Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Work cat.: The solace paradigm: an eclectic search for psychological immunity, 1987 (Solacing objects; attachment objects; transitional objects)
- found: Campbell psych. dict.
- found: Kaplan psych., 4th ed.: p. 560 ("Patients in psychotherapy may develop transitional object-like attachments at any age that fulfill ... and play a useful supporting role in the psychotherapeutic process")
- found: Penguin dict. psych. ("an object used by a child as a comforter ... there is considerable emotional attachment invested in the object. Term derives from psychoanalytic theory where the object is viewed as a psych. bridge allowing the child to make the transition from primitive narcissism to mature emotional attachment to others")
- notfound: MESH;NIH;Baker encyc. psych.;Psych. abst.;Thes. psych. ind. terms;Chaplin dict. psych.;Eysenck encyc. psych.;Harriman encyc. psych.;Harre & Lamb encyc. dict. psych.;Evans psych.;English comp. dict. psych.
LC Classification
General Notes
- Here are entered works on objects, such as a child's security blanket, which act as comforting agents and in which considerable emotional attachment is invested.
Change Notes
- 1987-04-16: new
- 2004-10-26: revised
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