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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.
The so-called "[[object-relations theory|object-relations school]]" is the majority tendency within British psychoanalysis.
Strongly influenced by [[Klein]], [[Winnicot]] and [[Anna Freud]], it gives priamry 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, develope developed out of the need to find a working compromise between the followers of [[Anna Freud]] and those of [[Klein]].
