The importance of early primary relationships in the development and psychoanalytic understanding of emptiness: connecting developmental theory with practice

BackgroundEmptiness is an integral component of an individual’s psychic development, characterized by the subjective human existential experience of loss and disconnection from the self, other people, and the external world. More generally, emptiness reflects the quality of internalized object relat...

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Main Author: Dimitrios Papadopoulos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1545852/full
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