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Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research 1: 160-162, 1992
Copyright © 1992 American Psychiatric Association, Inc.

Psychophysiologic Experience Fulfilling a Selfobject Function

JERRY P. MARTIN M. D.

In the case presented, a physiologic experience of starvation and associated psychological responses, including self-pity, served a self-soothing selfobject function. In this way a faltering sense of self can be stabilized by an internally derived selfobject response.

Submitted on June 21, 1990
Revised on April 25, 1991
Accepted on July 10, 1991






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