Does Melanie Klein's Concept of Internal Objects Relate to Samoan Writings on Internal Structures of the Self? A Phenomenologically-oriented Heuristic Enquiry

Description:

How might the cultures of psychotherapy and Samoa intersect and clash? In order to further understand my own New Zealand-born Samoan identity, I have attempted to ground myself in psychodynamic theory, eliciting questions about my professional identity. As ways of understanding the self and patterns of relating with the world can be viewed through the perspective of Object Relations Theory, thi...

Display date:

2016

Location:

Samoa

Format:

Thesis

Collections:

Tuwhera

Contributors:

Slater, Peter

Publisher:

Auckland University of Technology

Content partner:

Auckland University of Technology

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Not specified