When1: 1952
Who: Ronald Fairbairn [Fairbairn, Ronald]
What: psychoanalyst
Where: Britain
works\ Psychoanalytical Studies of the Personality [1952]
Detail: He lived 1889 to 1964 and developed a systematic interpersonal-relationships theory {object relation}. Depressed people can have the delusion that they are responsible for their early environment and feel guilty about it {moral defense}, to be independent and avoid helplessness.
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