Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Glossary 1. Object-relations in conceptual frame of mother-child dyad: A theoretical comprehension 2. Object relations theory: Melanie Klein's perspective from matriarchy 3. Balint's object-relational world: Ocnophil, philobat and creative dyads 4. Symbiosis and separation-individuation: Mahler's views of object relations 5. Winnicott's existential perspective of object-relations 6. Volatile trinity of Fairbairn: A new voice of object relations 7. Bion's object-relational metatheory: A shift from positivism to psychospirituality and beyond 8. Attachment and dependency: Bowlby's contention of object-relations from the ethological perspective 9. Analyzing flow of narcisisstic energies in self-psychological perspective: Kohut's novelty along psychoanalytic directions 10. Ego psychological object relations model: Kernberg's perspective of affect 11. Chodorow's perspective on mothering: Feminist influence of gender and culture on object relations 12. Critical comparison among the selected object relations theories