Product Description: This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It has articles authored both by Chinese and Western contributors that explore ideas that apply to the Chinese clinical population, cultural issues relevant to the practice of analysis and psychotherapy, and to the cultural interface between Western ideas underpinning psychoanalysis, and the richness of Chinese intellectual and philosophical ideas that analysis must encounter in the process of its introduction...read more

Product Description: How do the fundamental elements of experience impact on the practice of psychotherapy?Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions of Experience explores the three basic elements of psychotherapy - time, space and number - summarising theory, setting it in context and bringing concepts to life with clinical illustrations...read more

Product Description: W. R. D. Fairbairn was both a precursor and an architect of revolutionary change in psychoanalysis.  Through a handful of tightly reasoned papers written in the 1940s and 1950s, Fairbairn emerged as an incisive, albeit relatively obscure, voice in the wilderness, at considerable remove from mainstream Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis...read more

Product Description: Ronald Fairbairn developed a thoroughgoing object relations theory that became a foundation for modern clinical thought. This volume is homage to the enduring power of his thinking, and of his importance now and for the future of relational thinking within the social and human sciences...read more

Product Description: 1 Acknowledgments 2 Preface Chapter 3 1. The Interpersonal Unconscious Chapter 4 2.The Link Chapter 5 3.The Link, the Field, and Object Relations Chapter 6 4.The Link in Family Dynamics Chapter 7 5.The Social Unconscious Chapter 8 6...read more

Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate prejudice.

Product Description: New Paradigms for Treating Relationships is a contemporary international perspective on the psychoanalytic theory and practice of couple and family therapy. It summarizes theory, sets it in context, and illustrates the concepts with clinical illustrations...read more

The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland provides the first comprehensive review of W.R.D. Fairbairn and John Sutherland's theories on psycho-social development. It reviews Fairbairn and Sutherland's ideas, traces the philosophical roots of their thinking, explores their legacy, and demonstrates their relevance to contemporary practice. International contributors set these psychoanalytic theories in their philosophical and cultural context. They discuss the growing acceptance of Fairbairn and Sutherland's work in Europe and the Americas. They discuss the theories' impact on current thinking in subjects such as sexuality, hysteria, autonomy and repression. They re-examine the theories in the light of current clinical experience, illuminate them with reference to contemporary psychoanalytic theories and illustrate them with examples from work with children, adults, groups and families.This book presents an original fusion of the ideas of two of the most noteworthy figures in recent psychoanalysis. It will prove fascinating reading for all practicing and training psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.

Product Description: This book presents an exceptional collection of papers born out of an international psychoanalytic congress held to celebrate Fairbairn's important contribution to psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Emphasizing the transformational possibilities that grow out of their relational model of therapy, David E. and Jill Savege Scharff invite us into the territory of interactive journeys with individual patients. A contemporary classic. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Represents Freud's vision refracted through a prism of a century's legacy. Examines new views of hysteria as the diagnostic entity through which Freud invented psychoanalysis. Also looks at the contribution of Freud and analysis to the theory of love and clinical approaches to love relations, literature, visual arts, international diplomacy, and race...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Dr. David Scharff explores the role of sexuality in human relationships by combining his extensive experience in individual, marital, family, and sex therapy with theoretical contributions from object relations theory and child development.

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Product Description: Ronald Fairbairn's theory of object relations, first published in the 1940's, revolutionized psychoanalysis. Countering Freud's view that the developmental drive emerged almost solely from within an individual, Fairbairn argued that each person's fundamental need for relationships organizes development and its vicissitudes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ronald Fairbairn's theory of object relations, first published in the 1940's, revolutionized psychoanalysis. Countering Freud's view that the developmental drive emerged almost solely from within an individual, Fairbairn argued that each person's fundamental need for relationships organizes development and its vicissitudes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a short primer on object relations therapy. The content of the book derives from students' most frequently asked questions together with the Scharffs' responses. In an easy dialogue format, the Scharffs take readers beyond the forbidding aspects of theory and given them access to object relations therapy as a way of thinking and working that is easily understood and readily applicable to clinical practice...read more

Product Description: This book adds to the rich tradition of object relations thinking and enlivens psychotherapy.

Offers an indepth and thoughtful exploration of the relevance of psychoanalysis to family therapy.