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GOOD OBJECT (good + object)

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Selected Abstracts

IS THE ANALYST A GOOD OBJECT?

BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, Issue 3 2006
Warren Colman
ABSTRACT This paper suggests that the prohibition against ,taking the role of the good object' may inhibit therapists from an appropriate recognition of loving relation between the patient and themselves. It is argued that the prohibition actually refers to a defensive attempt to get the analyst to take the role of the idealized object as a defence against the emergence of bad objects in the transference. This clinical scenario is contrasted with one where the patient needs to find in their therapist a real good object who genuinely cares for them. [source]

Attitude learning through exploration: advice and strategy appraisals

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 5 2007
J. Richard Eiser
Processes of attitude learning were investigated through a game requiring discrimination between good and bad objects, where feedback about object valence (involving gain or loss) is contingent on approach. Previous research demonstrates a preponderance of false-negative errors, with some good objects (,learning asymmetry') and most novel objects (,generalization asymmetry') being judged as bad, but provides no direct evidence concerning how participants appraise alternative strategies and their own performance. To compare alternative strategies, participants received advice, supposedly from a previous participant, that most objects were bad and should be avoided, or good and should be approached. Learning and generalization asymmetries were replicated, especially among participants who followed the former (risk-averse) advice. Additionally, participants' evaluations of their own game strategy were inversely related to amount of negative feedback (the number of bad objects approached), but unrelated to positive feedback (from good objects approached), pointing to the salience of negative information for self-appraisals. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]