Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Text

Twenty-nine years since the first edition was released, Frank Summers has renewed his

lucid and thorough clarification of the various object relations theories to demonstrate

their evolution and continued significance for therapeutic practice.

This volume includes elucidation of the major scholarship that has advanced the ideas

of object relations theorists such as Fairbairn, Klein, Winnicott, Kernberg, and Kohut,

since the publication of the first edition. A thorough and detailed new chapter de...