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

Product Description: The Psychodynamic Image is the first selection of John D. Sutherland’s major papers.  It provides an overview of the development of his thought on self and society and reveals the extent of his contribution to the field of mental health...read more

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: The persecutory object is the element of the personality which attacks your confidence, productivity and acceptance to the point of no return. Persecuted patients torture themselves, hurt their loved ones and torment their therapists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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)

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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: In this landmark work on object relations, Dr. Jill Savage Scharff addresses the psychological processes of projective and introjective identification and countertransference. She carefully traces the debates about projective identification_the neurotic versus psychotic arguments and the intrapsychic versus interpersonal views...read more

Product Description: Clarifies the connections between the dynamics of family interaction and the internal object representations of its members."Neither simplistic nor impractical, this extraordinarily useful book on object relations and family therapy is a goldmine of useful information...read more