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Generally used in [[psychoanalysis]] to refer to the [[individual]]'s interaction withthe [[object]]s and [[part-object]]s that constitute his or her [[environment]].

[[Object-relations theory]] attempts to avoid [[Freud]]'s tendency to [[speak ]] of the [[subject]] in [[isolation ]] and to introduce an interpersonal [[dimension ]] into [[psychoanalysis]].

Strongly influenced by [[Klein]], [[Winnicot]] and [[Anna Freud]], it gives primary importance to the early [[relationship ]] between [[mother]] and [[child]] rather than the [[father]]-[[child]] relationship that is so important in [[Freud]]'s own writings, and has helped to produced a "mother-centered psychoanalysis."

[[Object-relations]] [[analysts ]] use a [[number ]] of different approaches and, whilst they share similar conceptions, do not really subscribe to a fixed [[body ]] of [[theoretical ]] principles.

In historical [[terms]], the group, sometimes described as the independent group, developed out of the [[need ]] to find a [[working ]] compromise between the followers of [[Anna Freud]] and those of [[Klein]].