Changes in separationndividuation and intersubjectivity in long-term treatment.

Childhood maltreatment, object relations, and suicidal behavior in women.

“…This study used the Self-Other Differentiation Scale coding schema for the ORI, which was developed to evaluate the level of separationindividuation and intersubjectivity on the ORI (Diamond, Kaslow, Coonerty, & Blatt, 1990). The theoretical foundations of this coding schema were derived primarily from the work of Mahler and colleagues (1975) and Stern (1985).…”

“…The theoretical foundations of this coding schema were derived primarily from the work of Mahler and colleagues (1975) and Stern (1985). The basis of this coding system is the view that development moves simultaneously toward the emergence of a consolidated, integrated, and individuated sense of self-definition, as well as empathetically attuned, reciprocal modes of intersubjective relatedness (Diamond et al, 1990).…”

Self-reflexivity, intersubjectivity, and therapeutic change.

“…To illustrate these clinical phenomena, we present material from the case of a 13-year-old female borderline inpatient, Patient A, who was treated for 19 months at our psychoanalytically oriented hospital during the early 1980s. This case has been discussed previously by Auerbach and Blatt (1996), , Diamond, Kaslow, Coonerty, and Blatt (1990), and Gruen and Blatt (1990). The older of two children, Patient A had come from a family background marked by parental divorce when she was 3 l /2 years old and by paternal alcoholism.…”

Sidney J. Blatt: Relatedness, self-definition, and mental representation.

“…Blatt used this model in developing the Conceptual Level Scale for rating open-ended descriptions of parents and other significant figures. Later, he integrated ideas from the two-configurations model with concepts from his representational model of cognitive development and from intersubjectivity theory in constructing the Differentiation-Relatedness Scale (Diamond et al, 1990;Diamond, Blatt, Stayner, & Kaslow, 1991), a measure that rates significant-figure descriptions from a more relational perspective. The theoretical assumptions underlying these scales are that cognitive development and the development of object relations occur in parallel and that the emergence of psychopathology is closely linked to disturbances in the development of object relations and cognitive organization (Behrends & Blatt, 1985).…”

“…Regarding his cognitive morphology, Blatt proposed a psychoanalytically informed cognitive developmental model of personality, according to which psychological growth involves the maturation of underlying representational structures of interpersonal or object relations. Initially, these representational structures focus primarily on need gratification, and they progress toward representations that integrate this early focus on needs with abstract conceptual properties involving complex psychological states and intersubjectivity (e.g., Blatt, Auerbach, & Levy, 1997;Diamond, Kaslow, Coonerty, & Blatt, 1990). Blatt's broad theoretical ideas serve as the foundation for his psychotherapy research, with its focus on how personality style and level of development influence clinical outcome.…”