After reading Chapter 5, you should be able to:

1. Define object relations theory and compare it to Freudian theory.
2. Discuss the psychological life of the infant as seen from Klein's point of view.
3. Explain Klein's concepts of the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions.
4. List and discuss Klein's psychic defense mechanisms.
5. Compare and contrast Klein's concept of the Oedipus complex with that of Freud.
6. Discuss Mahler's ideas on psychological birth.
7. Discuss Kohut's views of object relations.
8. Discuss Bowlby's attachment theory.
9. Discuss Ainsworth's Strange Situation.