Object relations theories, both British and American, have achieved increasing prominence in recent years as the limitations of the classical psychoanalytic model have become more apparent. Despite the plethora of books written from an object relations perspective, there has to …
Object relations theories, both British and American, have achieved increasing prominence in recent years as the limitations of the classical psychoanalytic model have become more apparent. Despite the plethora of books written from an object relations perspective, there has to …
In Transcending the Self: An Object Relations Model of Psychoanalytic Therapy, Summers answers the need for an integrative object relations model that can be understood and applied by the clinician in the daily conduct of psychoanalytic therapy. Filled with richly detailed case …
Relational and Intersubjective Perspectives in Psychoanalysis: a Critique
by Frie, Roger, Mills, Jon, Mills, Jon, Frederickson, Jon, Thompson, M. Guy, Ries, Bruce, Giovacchini, Peter L., Giovacchini, Philip, Summers, Frank, Zeddies, Timothy J., Downing, David L., Nissim-Sabat, Marilyn, Langs, Robert, Molad, Gershon J., Vida, Judith E., Wallerstein, Robert S.
This volume is the first concentrated effort to offer a philosophical critique of relational and intersubjective perspectives in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. The distinguished group of scholars and clinicians assembled here trace the theoretical underpinnings of relation…
"Insight" and "Change." The problematic relationship between these two concepts, to which the reality of psychoanalytic patients who fully understand maladaptive patterns without being able to change them attests, has dogged psychoanalysis for a century. Building on the integr…
""Insight" and "Change." The problematic relationship between these two concepts has dogged psychoanalysis for a century. Building on the integrative object relations model set forth in Transcending the Self (1999), Frank Summers turns to Winnicott's notion of "potential space" …
""Insight" and "Change." The problematic relationship between these two concepts has dogged psychoanalysis for a century. Building on the integrative object relations model set forth in Transcending the Self (1999), Frank Summers turns to Winnicott's notion of "potential space" …