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.
Author(s): W. Fairbairn
Edition: Reprint
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 336
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
PREFACE BY ERNEST JONES......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
SCHIZOID FACTORS IN THE PERSONALITY (1940)......Page 26
A REVISED PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF THE PSYCHOSES AND PSYCHONEUROSES......Page 51
THE REPRESSION AND THE RETURN OF BAD OBJECTS......Page 82
ENDOPSYCHIC STRUCTURE CONSIDERED IN TERMS OF OBJECT-RELATIONSHIPS......Page 105
OBJECT-RELATIONSHIPS AND DYNAMIC STRUCTURE......Page 160
STEPS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN OBJECT-RELATIONS THEORY OF PERSONALITY......Page 175
A SYNOPSIS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AUTHOR’S VIEWS REGARDING THE STRUCTURE OF THE PRSONALITY......Page 185
NOTES ON THE RELIGIOUS PHANTASIES OF A FEMALE PATIENT......Page 206
FEATURES IN THE ANALYSIS OF A PATIENT WITH A PHYSICAL GENITAL ABNORMALITY......Page 220
THE EFFECT OF A KING’S DEATH UPON PATIENTS UNDERGOING ANALYSIS......Page 246
THE SOCIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF COMMUNISM CONSIDERED IN THE LIGHT OF PSYCHOLOGISTS......Page 256
PSYCHOLOGY AS A PRESCRIBED AND AS A PROSCRIBED SUBJECT......Page 270
THE WAR NEUROSES—THEIR NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE......Page 279
THE TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION OF SEXUAL OFFENDERS......Page 312
LIST OF WORKS......Page 320
INDEX......Page 321
