An Introduction To Object Relations

Author : Lavinia Gomez
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814730959
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Object Relations written by Lavinia Gomez and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be human? Object relations, the British- based development of classic Freudian psychoanalytic theory, is based on the belief that the human being is essentially social; the need for relationship is central to the definition of the self. Object relations theory forms the base of psychoanalysts' work, including Melanie Klein, D. W. Winnicott, W. R. D. Fairbairn, Michael Balint, H.J.S. Guntrip, and John Bowlby. Lavinia Gomez here provides an introduction to the main theories and applications of object relations. Through its detailed focus on internal and interpersonal unconscious processes, object relations can help psychotherapists, counselors and others in social service professions to understand and work with people who may otherwise seem irrational, unpredictable and baffling.

Author : N. Gregory Hamilton
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 0876689616
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self and Others written by N. Gregory Hamilton and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1988 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook of this new development in psychoanalysis.

Author : Michael St. Clair
Publisher : Brooks Cole
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Object Relations and Self Psychology written by Michael St. Clair and published by Brooks Cole. This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book makes object relations and self psychology accessible to students of psychology, counseling, and social work as well as to theologians and other theorists not familiar with recent psychoanalytical literature. The theories presented illuminate areas of childhood experiences such as relational problems and narcissistic and borderline personality disorders...Students will find clinical insights about object relations and self psychology. The issues, ideas, and controversies of these models of the person are clearly presented and readable. A balance between technical accuracy and simple clarity is maintained.

Author : Jay R. Greenberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674417003
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory written by Jay R. Greenberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory provides a masterful overview of the central issue concerning psychoanalysts today: finding a way to deal in theoretical terms with the importance of the patient's relationships with other people. Just as disturbed and distorted relationships lie at the core of the patient's distress, so too does the relation between analyst and patient play a key role in the analytic process. All psychoanalytic theories recognize the clinical centrality of “object relations,” but much else about the concept is in dispute. In their ground-breaking exercise in comparative psychoanalysis, the authors offer a new way to understand the dramatic and confusing proliferation of approaches to object relations. The result is major clarification of the history of psychoanalysis and a reliable guide to the fundamental issues that unite and divide the field. Greenberg and Mitchell, both psychoanalysts in private practice in New York, locate much of the variation in the concept of object relations between two deeply divergent models of psychoanalysis: Freud's model, in which relations with others are determined by the individual's need to satisfy primary instinctual drives, and an alternative model, in which relationships are taken as primary. The authors then diagnose the history of disagreement about object relations as a product of competition between these disparate paradigms. Within this framework, Sullivan's interpersonal psychiatry and the British tradition of object relations theory, led by Klein, Fairbairn, Winnicott, and Guntrip, are shown to be united by their rejection of significant aspects of Freud's drive theory. In contrast, the American ego psychology of Hartmann, Jacobson, and Kernberg appears as an effort to enlarge the classical drive theory to accommodate information derived from the study of object relations. Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory offers a conceptual map of the most difficult terrain in psychoanalysis and a history of its most complex disputes. In exploring the counterpoint between different psychoanalytic schools and traditions, it provides a synthetic perspective that is a major contribution to the advance of psychoanalytic thought.

Author : Eda Goldstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451603185
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Soc written by Eda Goldstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Relations and Self Psychology are two leading schools of psychological thought discussed in social work classrooms and applied by practitioners to a variety of social work populations. Yet both groups have lacked a basic manual for teaching and reference -- until now. For them, Dr. Eda G. Goldstein's book fills a void on two fronts: Part I provides a readable, systematic, and comprehensive review of object relations and self psychology, while Part II gives readers a friendly, step-by-step description and illustration of basic treatment techniques. For educators, this textbook offers a learned and accessible discussion of the major concepts and terminology, treatment principles, and the relationship of object relations and self psychology to classic Freudian theory. Practitioners find within these pages treatment guidelines for such varied problems as illness and disability, the loss of a significant other, and such special problems as substance abuse, child maltreatment, and couple and family disruptions. In a single volume, Dr. Goldstein has met the complex challenges of education and clinical practice.

Author : Paul Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317543084
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inner World Outside written by Paul Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993, The Inner World Outside has become a classic in its field. Paul Holmes walks the reader through the ‘inner world’ of object relationships and the corresponding ‘outside world’ shared by others in which real relationships exist. Trained as a psychotherapist in both psychoanalytical and psychodramatic methods, Paul Holmes has written a well informed, clear introduction to Object Relations Theory and its relation to psychodrama. He explores the links between the theories of J.L. Moreno, the founder of psychodrama, and Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and presents a stimulating synthesis. Each chapter opens with an account of part of a psychodrama session which focus on particular aspects of psychodrama or object relations theory illuminating the concepts or techniques using the clinical material from the group to illustrate basic psychoanalytic concepts in action. Published here with a new introduction from the author that links the book’s content to concepts of attachment theory, the book weaves together the very different concepts in an inspiring and comprehensive way that will ensure the book continues to be used by mental health and arts therapies professional, whether in training or practice.

Author : Peter Buckley
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814710808
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Papers on Object Relations written by Peter Buckley and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1986-05 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalysis and Woman collects for the first time in one volume the most important psychoanalytic writings on female sexuality and women from Freud's contemporaries through French feminisms to postmodernism and post-feminism. These primary texts introduce the reader to a broad spectrum of works by primarily women theorists writing within a number of different psychoanalytic traditions.Psychoanalysis and Woman makes available a number of fundamental, yet obscure and inaccessible early psychoanalytic documents by women and places them within the context of later women psychoanalytic theorists. Editor Shelley Saguaro provides a concise contextual introduction addressing some of the sexual political issues raised by psychoanalysis, while each section of the volume is prefaced with more specific biographical and cultural introductory material. Topics addressed include new reproductive and sexual technologies, cybernetics, androgyny, the third sex, pornography, and psychoanalysis and contemporary media/film theory.Contributors include Sigmund Freud, Karen Horney, Helene Deutsch, Jeanne Lampl-de Groot, Joan Riviere, Maria Torok, Melanie Klein, Nancy Chodorow, Juliet Mitchell, Noreen O'Connor and Joanna Ryan, Carl G. Jung, Esther Harding, Maria von Franz, Marion Woodman, Jacques Lacan, H l ne Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Julie Kristeva, Mary Jane Sherfey, Monique Wittig, Jacqeline Rose, Camille Paglia, Judith Butler, and Jane Flax.

Author : David E. Scharff
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1461629799
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Object Relations Family Therapy written by David E. Scharff and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1977-07-07 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an indepth and thoughtful exploration of the relevance of psychoanalysis to family therapy.

Author : Lavinia Gomez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315316633
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developments in Object Relations written by Lavinia Gomez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Introduction -- 2. Beginnings -- 3. The Kleinian and Independent frameworks -- 4. Wilfred Bion and his development of psychoanalysis -- 5. Further Kleinian developments -- 6. Masud Khan and the British Psychoanalytical Society -- 7. Further Independent developments -- 8. Kleinian and Independent approaches to practice.

Author : David P. Celani
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231149077
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting written by David P. Celani and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, insensitivity, and outright abuse that are impossible the children to tolerate consciously. In Fairbairn's model, these dissociated memories protect developing children from recognizing how badly they are being treated and allow them to remain attached even to physically abusive parents. Attachment is paramount in Fairbairn's model, as he recognized that children are absolutely and unconditionally dependent on their parents. Kidnapped children who remain attached to their abusive captors despite opportunities to escape illustrate this intense dependency, even into adolescence. At the heart of Fairbairn's model is a structural theory that organizes actual relational events into three self-and-object pairs: one conscious pair (the central ego, which relates exclusively to the ideal object in the external world) and two mostly unconscious pairs (the child's antilibidinal ego, which relates exclusively to the rejecting parts of the object, and the child's libidinal ego, which relates exclusively to the exciting parts of the object). The two dissociated self-and-object pairs remain in the unconscious but can emerge and suddenly take over the individual's central ego. When they emerge, the "other" is misperceived as either an exciting or a rejecting object, thus turning these internal structures into a source of transferences and reenactments. Fairbairn's central defense mechanism, splitting, is the fast shift from central ego dominance to either the libidinal ego or the antilibidinal ego-a near perfect model of the borderline personality disorder. In this book, David Celani reviews Fairbairn's five foundational papers and outlines their application in the clinical setting. He discusses the four unconscious structures and offers the clinician concrete suggestions on how to recognize and respond to them effectively in the heat of the clinical interview. Incorporating decades of experience into his analysis, Celani emphasizes the internalization of the therapist as a new "good" object and devotes entire sections to the treatment of histrionic, obsessive, and borderline personality disorders.