“…The term encompasses the work of the Kleinians and neo-Kleinians, the British Middle School, including theorists such as Balint (1955), Fairbairn, Guntrip, and Winnicott (1971/1990), as well as American object relations theorists such as Mahler (Mahler, Pine, & Bergman, 1975), Kernberg (1976), and the intersubjectivists (e.g., Stolorow & Lachmann, 1980). For several reasons, this model is particularly useful for the analysis of the Rorschach and projective tests (Smith, 1990; Tibon, Handelzalts, & Weinberger, 2005; Tibon, Weinberger, Handelzalts, & Porcelli, 2005; Yazigi & Nashat, 2012; Zeligman, Smith, & Tibon, 2012). In the first place, its propositions are “experience-near” and thus more easily translatable into therapeutic recommendations.…”