ABSTRACT
Greenberg and Mitchell's (1983) widely accepted definition of object relations functioning postulates internal and external transactions with self and others: "The term refers to individual's interactions with external and internal (real and imagined) other people and to the relationship between their internal and external object worlds" (pp. 13–14). Another term sometimes used to define the domain of an individual's real or imagined definition to self and others is object representation. Although the term is sometimes used interchangeably with object relations, its more useful and appropriate place is the inner domain, as it is a psychological construct referring to a complex, multidimensional inner mental map, schemata, or template, providing graphic psychological definitions of self and others.
