The Child can be: * Attracted; * Repelled (due to unjust mistreatment, for instance). The possible axes are: Child / Mother How to read this table: Attraction - Attraction/Accepting means that the child is attracted to his mother, his mother is attracted to him and she is a Winnicottean "good enough" (accepting) mother. 1. Attraction - Attraction/Accepting (Healthy axis, leads to self-love) 2. Attraction - Attraction/Domineering (Could lead to personality disorders such as avoidant, or schizoid, or to social phobia, etc.) 3. Attraction - Attraction/Doting or Smothering (Could lead to Cluster B Personality Disorders) 4. Attraction - Repulsion/Indifferent [passive-aggressive, frustrating] (Could lead to narcissism, Cluster B disorders) 5. Attraction - Repulsion/Rejecting (Could lead to personality disorders such as paranoid, borderline, etc.) 6. Attraction - Repulsion/Abusive (Could lead to DID, ADHD, NPD, BPD, AHD, AsPD, PPD, etc.) 7. Repulsion - Repulsion/Indifferent (Could lead to avoidant, schizoid, paranoid, etc. PDs) 8. Repulsion - Repulsion/Rejecting (Could lead to personality, mood, anxiety disorders and to impulsive behaviours, such as eating disorders) 9. Repulsion - Attraction/Accepting (Could lead to unresolved Oedipal conflicts and to neuroses) 10. Repulsion - Attraction/Domineering (Could have the same results as axis 6) 11. Repulsion - Attraction/Doting (Could have the same results as axis 9) This, of course, is a very rough draft-matrix. Many of the axes can be combined to yield more complex clinical pictures. It provides an initial, coarse, map of the possible interactions between the PO and the SO in early childhood and the unsavoury results of bad objects internalised. The results of this POSO matrix continue to interact with AO to form a global self-evaluation (self-esteem or sense of self-worth). This process - the formation of a coherent sense of self-esteem - starts with POSO interactions within the matrix and continues roughly till the age of 8, all the time gathering and assimilating interactions with AO (=meaningful others). First, a model of attachment relationship is formed (approximately the matrix above). This model is based on the internalisation of the Primary Object (later, the self). The attachment interaction with SO follows and following a threshold quantity of interactions with AO, the more global self is formed. This process of the formation of a global self rests on the operation of a few critical principles: