Embodied experience - Current Perspectives of Scientific-Philosophical and Empirical Research on the Basic Concepts and Assumptions of Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory

In a first philosophical part, the dissertation project provides an update and an interdisciplinary investigation of the basic concepts and assumptions of psychoanalytic object relations theory by including research from the Philosophy of Mind, the cognitive sciences, but also phenomenology, in the discussion of psychoanalytic theory. In the second empirical part, a study design is developed for a validation study of a psychometric measurement instrument based on psychoanalytic object relations theory.