Child psychologist Jean Piaget studied children's response to the outside world, coining the term "object constancy" to describe children's ability to tolerate when their parent left. Such an ...

For example, Mahler wrote that if a child's ... which could help explain why some people grow up with a lack of object constancy — and then become narcissists with the inability to have empathy ...

A lack of whole object relations and object constancy is characteristic of people who are diagnosed with personality disorders. For example, from an object relations theoretical point of view ...

Some key pivot points of NPD: Does this person have object constancy and do they easily go into splitting? For example: when this person is upset with you by something you did, do they still ...

Sigmund Freud had a nephew named Ernst with whom he would play peek-a-boo. Freud would hold a teddy bear at the edge of Ernst's crib and then drop it out of sight. Ever the scientist, Freud ...

Visual object constancy has been studied widely 8 ... Visual constancies provide more examples in which magnitudes of an interpreted perceptual dimension can be dissociated from the underlying ...