ambitendency

Mahler used the term “ambitendency” in describing the push-pull of the urgent and competing needs for closeness and autonomy that characterize the rapprochement period.

Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001

Mahler used the term “ambitendency” in describing the push-pull of the urgent and competing needs for closeness and autonomy that characterize the rapprochement period.

Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001

In the absence of immobility, mutism or stupor, at least two of the following that can be observed or elicited on two or more occasions: stereotypy, echophenomena, catalepsy, automatic obedience, posturing, Gegenhalten negativism, ambitendency

The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

The law of psychic ambivalence and ambitendency, as so nicely developed by Bleuler,21 here shows itself in marked degree.

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916