Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"The richness of Fairbairn's work is demonstrated in a series of essays offering a unique exploration of the application of his concepts to diverse areas ranging from philosophy to psychopathology. This volume opens with an examination of the origins and relevance of Fairbairn's ideas and subsequently turns to the application of his theory to the study of depression, hysteria, and to the field of liason psychiatry. Fairbairn's ideas are further applied to the study of dreams and aesthetics in two original essays. The book concludes with a delineation of the future of his contribution to contemporary theories of object relations and to the emergence of a new psychoanalytic paradigm."--Provided by publisher.

Object relations (Psychoanalysis) --- Psychoanalysis. --- Psychology --- Psychology, Pathological --- Object relations theory (Psychoanalysis) --- Psychoanalysis --- Interpersonal relations --- Fairbairn, W. Ronald D. --- Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds --- Fairbairn, Ronald --- Fairbairn, W. R. D.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Ronald Fairbairn developed a thoroughgoing object relations theory that became a foundation for modern clinical thought. This volume is homage to the enduring power of his thinking, and of his importance now and for the future of relational thinking within the social and human sciences. The book gathers an international group of therapists, analysts, psychiatrists, social commentators, and historians, who contend that Fairbairn's work extends powerfully beyond the therapeutic. They suggest that social, cultural, and historical dimensions can all be illuminated by his work. Object relations as a strand within psychoanalysis began with Freud and passed through Ferenczi and Rank, Balint, Suttie, and Klein, to come of age in Fairbairn's papers of the early 1940s. That there is still life in this line of thinking is illustrated by the essays in this collection and by the modern relational turn in psychoanalytic theory, the development of attachment theory, and the increasing recognition that there is 'no such thing as an ego' without context, without relationships, without a social milieu.

Object relations (Psychoanalysis) --- Object relations theory (Psychoanalysis) --- Psychoanalysis --- Interpersonal relations --- Fairbairn, W. Ronald D. --- Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds --- Fairbairn, Ronald --- Fairbairn, W. R. D.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Object relations couple therapy is based on the value of non-directive listening to create psychological space for understanding, working with dreams and fantasy material, and following affect to reach the unconscious conflict. Repetitive patterns of interaction are recognized and linked to the need for defense from intolerable anxiety that can only later be named and worked on. The method is one of interpretation of conflict, with the goal of bringing the unconscious to consciousness, where it can revitalize the couple's impoverished relationship. (Aronson)