Object Relations in Psychoanalytic TheoryObject Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory provides a masterful overview of the central issue concerning psychoanalysts today: finding a way to deal in theoretical terms with the importance of the patient's relationships with other people. Just as disturbed and distorted relationships lie at the core of the patient's distress, so too does the relation between analyst and patient play a key role in the analytic process. All psychoanalytic theories recognize the clinical centrality of “object relations,” but much else about the concept is in dispute. In their ground-breaking exercise in comparative psychoanalysis, the authors offer a new way to understand the dramatic and confusing proliferation of approaches to object relations. The result is major clarification of the history of psychoanalysis and a reliable guide to the fundamental issues that unite and divide the field. |
Contents
The DriveStructure Model | 21 |
The Strategy of Accommodation | 50 |
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis | 79 |
5 | 119 |
Heinz Hartmann | 233 |
Margaret Mahler | 270 |
68 | 286 |
10 | 304 |
Heinz Kohut and Joseph Sandler | 351 |
A Deeper Divergence | 379 |
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