"Object relations theory has caused a fundamental reorientation of psychodynamic thought. In Object Relations Theory and Practice, Dr. David E. Scharff acclimates readers to the language and culture of this therapeutic perspective and provides carefully selected excerpts from se…
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…
In "Self and Other", Robert Rogers presents a powerful argument for the adoption of a theory of object relations, combining the best features of traditional psychoanalytic theory with contemporary views on attachment behavior and intersubjectivity. Rogers discusses theory in rel…
In "Self and Other", Robert Rogers presents a powerful argument for the adoption of a theory of object relations, combining the best features of traditional psychoanalytic theory with contemporary views on attachment behavior and intersubjectivity. Rogers discusses theory in rel…
Fairbairn, then and now
by Scharff, David E., Skolnick, Neil J.
fromRelational perspectives book series
Fairbairn, then and now
by Scharff, David E., Skolnick, Neil J.
fromRelational perspectives book series
Fairbairn, then and now
by Scharff, David E., Skolnick, Neil J.
fromRelational perspectives book series
Winnicott was the first to describe how very early in life an individual can, in response to environmental failure, turn away from the body and its needs and establish ""mental functioning as a thing in itself."" Winnicott's elusive term, the mind-psyche, describes a subtle, yet…
Winnicott was the first to describe how very early in life an individual can, in response to environmental failure, turn away from the body and its needs and establish "mental functioning as a thing in itself." Winnicott's elusive term, the mind-psyche, describes a subtle, yet f…
Fairbairn's intellectual development and a review of his early papers -- Fairbairn's structural model and his radical approach to psychoanalytic treatment -- The dynamic relationships between the pathological ego structures -- A Fairbairnian approach to the therapeutic relations…
W.R.D. Fairbairn (1889-1964) challenged the dominance of Freud's drive theory with a psychoanalytic theory based on the internalization of human relationships. Fairbairn assumed that the unconscious develops in childhood and contains dissociated memories of parental neglect, ins…
Harry Karnac began to specialise in psychoanalytic bookselling at the suggestion of Donald Winnicott, a customer at Karnac's bookshop in Gloucester Road during the late 1950s. The two became good friends and Harry's interest in Winnicott and his works has remained strong ever si…