ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |179 pages
An Object-Relations Theory of the Personality
chapter |25 pages
Schizoid Factors in the Personality (1940) 1
chapter |15 pages
Object-Relationships and Dynamic Structure 1 (1946)
part |49 pages
Clinical Papers
part |66 pages
Miscellaneous Papers