Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality

by W. R. D. Fairbairn

Overview

First published in 1952, W.R.D. Fairbairn's Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality re-oriented psychoanalysis by centering human development on the infant's innate need for relationships, describing the process of splitting and the internal dynamic relationship between ego and object. His elegant theory is still a vital framework of psychoanalytic theory and practice, infant research, group relations and family therapy.
This classic collection of papers, available for the first time in paperback, has a new introduction by David Scharff and Elinor Fairbairn Birtles which sets Fairbairn's highly original work in context, provides an overview of object relations theory, and traces modern developments, launched by Fairbairn's discoveries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134842131
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/03/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

David E. Scharff, MD is the Director of the Center for the Study of Object Relations, Washington, D.C. and former Director of the Washington School of Psychiatry. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and at Georgetown University Medical School and a Teaching Analyst in the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.
Ellinor Fairbairn Birtles, the daughter of the late W. R. D. Fairbairn, is Director of SITA Technology Ltd.

Table of Contents

Part 1 An Object-Relations Theory of the Personality; Chapter 1 Schizoid Factors in the Personality (1940); Chapter 2 A Revised Psychopathology of the Psychoses and Psychoneuroses (1941); Chapter 3 The Repression and the Return of Bad Objects (with special reference to the ‘War Neuroses,) (1943); Chapter 4 Endopsychic Structure Considered in Terms of Object-Relationships (1944); Chapter 5 Object-Relationships and Dynamic Structure (1946); Chapter 6 Steps in the Development of an Object-Relations Theory of the Personality (1949); Chapter 7 A Synopsis of the Development of the Author’s Views Regarding the Structure of the Personality (1951); Part 2 Clinical Papers; Chapter 8 Notes on the Religious Phantasies of a Female Patient (1927); Chapter 9 Features in the Analysis of a Patient with a Physical Genital Abnormality (1931); Chapter 10 The Effect of a King’s Death Upon Patients Undergoing Analysis (1936); Part 3 Miscellaneous Papers; Chapter 11 The Sociological Significance of Communism Considered in the Light of Psychoanalysis (1935); Chapter 12 Psychology as a Prescribed and as a Proscribed Subject (1939); Chapter 13 The War Neuroses—Their Nature and Significance (1943); Chapter 14 The Treatment and Rehabilitation of Sexual Offenders (1946);

Editorial Reviews

‘I liked this collection of papers very much and welcome the opportunity to become better acquainted with Fairbairn's work.' - Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

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