TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - Object relations and physical abuse: a TAT analysis
JO  - Journal of personality assessment
A1  - Freedenfeld, R. N.
A1  - Ornduff, S. R.
A1  - Kelsey, R. M.
SP  - 552
EP  - 568
VL  - 64
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-3891
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -