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Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory (Hardcover)
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Object 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. Greenberg and
Mitchell, both psychoanalysts in private practice in New York,
locate much of the variation in the concept of object relations
between two deeply divergent models of psychoanalysis: Freud's
model, in which relations with others are determined by the
individual's need to satisfy primary instinctual drives, and an
alternative model, in which relationships are taken as primary. The
authors then diagnose the history of disagreement about object
relations as a product of competition between these disparate
paradigms. Within this framework, Sullivan's interpersonal
psychiatry and the British tradition of object relations theory,
led by Klein, Fairbairn, Winnicott, and Guntrip, are shown to be
united by their rejection of significant aspects of Freud's drive
theory. In contrast, the American ego psychology of Hartmann,
Jacobson, and Kernberg appears as an effort to enlarge the
classical drive theory to accommodate information derived from the
study of object relations. Object Relations in Psychoanalytic
Theory offers a conceptual map of the most difficult terrain in
psychoanalysis and a history of its most complex disputes. In
exploring the counterpoint between different psychoanalytic schools
and traditions, it provides a synthetic perspective that is a major
contribution to the advance of psychoanalytic thought.
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