ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that drive theory and its development—the object relations theory, the concept of the self, and some aspects of attachment—constitute important factors in working with refugees. J. Bowlby's exploration of groups of instincts, libido, and aggression, and how they are expressed in striving for attachment and separation, and also how they provide emotional substrate for personality development, is in line with object relations theory. Development of a sense of self for a child is largely by means of their environment and facilitations; opportunities of a society are interceded in personality. The development of the sense of self will start from the beginning of one's life and grows through several stages, including infancy, childhood, preadolescence, early adolescence, late adolescence, and a period of preparatory developmental process towards maturity. Relatedness and development of new attachment can enable the child to note more clearly the dialectical developmental transaction between relatedness and self-definition.
