@article{ref1,
title="Object relations and physical abuse: a TAT analysis",
journal="Journal of personality assessment",
year="1995",
author="Freedenfeld, R. N. and Ornduff, S. R. and Kelsey, R. M.",
volume="64",
number="3",
pages="552-568",
abstract="Selected Thematic Apperception Test (Murray, 1943) stories of 39 physically abused children and a clinical group of 39 children with no recorded history of abuse were examined using the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scales (Westen, Lohr, Silk, Kerber, & Goodrich, 1985). As predicted, a history of physical abuse was associated with a more malevolent object world; a lower level capacity for emotional investment in relations and moral standards; and less accurate, complex, and logical attributions of causality in understanding human interaction. These impairments in object relations were manifest both as a typical level of functioning and as a propensity for more grossly pathological functioning. Results are discussed in terms of clinical and theoretical implications.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3891",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}