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This book explores family interaction and family psychoanalysis
from varying standpoints used around the world. It illustrates
these with extensive clinical cases discussed from varying
perspectives. The book is the first in a series of volumes from the
International Psychoanalytical Association's Working Group on
Family and Couple Psychoanalysis, drawn from its ongoing research
into comparative theories and methods of working analytically with
families and couples, and with varying types of family structure.
It also applies lessons from family psychoanalysis to analytic
theory and to the practice of individual psychoanalysis.
Marriage and Family in Modern China is a groundbreaking
psychoanalytic examination of how 70 years of widespread social
change have transformed the intimacies of life in modern China. The
book describes the evolution of marriage and family structure, from
the ancient tradition of large families preferring sons, arranged
marriages and devaluation of girls, to a contemporary dominance of
free-choice marriages and families that now prefer to remain small
even after the ending of the One Child Policy. David Scharff uses
extensive reports of his psychoanalytic interventions to
demonstrate how the residue of widespread trauma suffered by
Chinese families during past centuries has interacted with the
effects of rapid modernization to produce new patterns of
individual identity, personal ambition and family structure. This
wholly original book offers new insight into Chinese families for
all those interested in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and in the
intricacies of Chinese domestic life.
Marriage and Family in Modern China is a groundbreaking
psychoanalytic examination of how 70 years of widespread social
change have transformed the intimacies of life in modern China. The
book describes the evolution of marriage and family structure, from
the ancient tradition of large families preferring sons, arranged
marriages and devaluation of girls, to a contemporary dominance of
free-choice marriages and families that now prefer to remain small
even after the ending of the One Child Policy. David Scharff uses
extensive reports of his psychoanalytic interventions to
demonstrate how the residue of widespread trauma suffered by
Chinese families during past centuries has interacted with the
effects of rapid modernization to produce new patterns of
individual identity, personal ambition and family structure. This
wholly original book offers new insight into Chinese families for
all those interested in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and in the
intricacies of Chinese domestic life.
`I liked this collection of papers very much and welcome the opportunity to become better acquainted with Fairbairn's work.' - Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
Using Winnicott's classic paper as its starting point, this
fascinating collection explores a range of clinical and theoretical
psychoanalytic perspectives around relating to "the object." Each
author approaches the topic from a different angle, switching among
the patient's use of others in their internal and external lives,
their use of their therapist, and the therapist's own use of their
patients. The use of objects is susceptible to wide interpretation
and elaboration; it is both a normal phenomenon and a marker for
certain personal difficulties, or even psychopathologies, seen in
clinical practice. While it is normal for people to relate to
others through the lens of their internal objects in ways that give
added meaning to aspects of their lives, it becomes problematic
when people live as if devoid of a self and instead live almost
exclusively through the others who form their internal worlds,
often leading them to feel that they cannot be happy until and
unless others change. Assessing the significance of objects among
adult and child patients, groups and the group-as-object, and
exploring Freud's own use of objects, The Use of the Object in
Psychoanalysis will be of significant interest both to experienced
psychoanalysts and psychotherapists and to trainees exploring
important theoretical questions.
In this time of vulnerable marriages and partnerships, many couples
seek help for their relationships. Psychoanalytic couple therapy is
a growing application of psychoanalysis for which training is not
usually offered in most psychoanalytic and analytic psychotherapy
programs.This book is both an advanced text for therapists and a
primer for new students of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Its
twenty-eight chapters cover the major ideas underlying the
application of psychoanalysis to couple therapy, many clinical
illustrations of cases and problems in various dimensions of the
work. The international group of authors comes from the
International Psychotherapy Institute based in Washington, DC, and
the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (TCCR) in London. The
result is a richly international perspective that nonetheless has
theoretical and clinical coherence because of the shared vision of
the authors.
This book widens the scope of clinical and theoretical
contributions on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis by collecting
case presentations and discussions by analysts from Europe, North
America, Latin America, China and Australia. The rich
cross-fertilization across countries and analytic orientations
stimulates cross-cultural thinking and deepens clinical
exploration. In English language psychoanalysis, focus on object
relations theory emphasizes internalization of early family figures
in construction of the psyche, and their projective influence on
others through continuing family interaction. Theories of the link
and of the field explored in South America and Europe, shift focus
from the internal life of the individual onto the influence of the
other, and the way superordinate unconscious patterns introjected
from previous generations are recreated by interacting members of
families and couples, and in turn contribute to the continuing
psychic evolution of individuals. Work in other cultures, such as
China, brings us face to face with deep structures of thought and
family organization that challenge Western psychoanalytic
assumptions, even as those families are in rapid change themselves.
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. Michael
Stadter and David Scharff bring together contributions describing
how each of these elements, as well as their simple and direct
manifestations in the physical world, also combine to form the
psychological dimensions of symbolic reality both in the inner
world and in the transactional world. They also reveal how, in
encounters between patient and therapist, the combination of inner
worlds form a new, uniquely psychological, fourth dimension that
saturates the activity and experience of the other three elements.
This book aims to increase our understanding of the action of the
three dimensions of psychotherapy by looking at the elements that
constitute the setting and process in which clinicians engage every
day. The contributors, all of whom are experienced psychotherapists
and psychoanalysts, connect their thinking on the dimensions to
clinical practice by illustrating their ideas with case material
and examining their impact on general treatment issues. This book
will be useful to practicing psychotherapists and psychoanalysts
and students of psychoanalysis and philosophy.
In this time of vulnerable marriages and partnerships, many couples
seek help for their relationships. Psychoanalytic couple therapy is
a growing application of psychoanalysis for which training is not
usually offered in most psychoanalytic and analytic psychotherapy
programs.This book is both an advanced text for therapists and a
primer for new students of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Its
twenty-eight chapters cover the major ideas underlying the
application of psychoanalysis to couple therapy, many clinical
illustrations of cases and problems in various dimensions of the
work. The international group of authors comes from the
International Psychotherapy Institute based in Washington, DC, and
the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (TCCR) in London. The
result is a richly international perspective that nonetheless has
theoretical and clinical coherence because of the shared vision of
the authors.
This book explores family interaction and family psychoanalysis
from varying standpoints used around the world. It illustrates
these with extensive clinical cases discussed from varying
perspectives. The book is the first in a series of volumes from the
International Psychoanalytical Association's Working Group on
Family and Couple Psychoanalysis, drawn from its ongoing research
into comparative theories and methods of working analytically with
families and couples, and with varying types of family structure.
It also applies lessons from family psychoanalysis to analytic
theory and to the practice of individual psychoanalysis.
Rising above the polemics surrounding sexual and physical abuse,
David and Jill Savege Scharff bring a relational perspective to the
integration of psychoanalytic and trauma theories in order to
understand the effects of overwhelming physical and psychological
trauma, including sexual abuse, injury, and birth defect. The
Scharffs draw from their object relations therapy with individuals,
families, and couples recovering from trauma and abundance of
relevant clinical examples described in their characteristically
personal and vivid style. Their treatment approach, influenced by
Fairbairn, Klein, and Winnicott, is respectful of the patient's
experience. They advise avoiding premature interpretations that
impose their own reality on patients because this traumatizes them
just as their abuser did. In order to work well with these
traumatized people, the clinician must be able to tolerate
ambiguity and sustain long term therapy, for it takes the patience
of waiting and wondering to recover deeply repressed memories,
explore them thoroughly, and evaluate their meaning and importance
for the patient. The Scharffs' demonstration of clinical processes
helps therapists contain their own countertransference to trauma so
as to be fully present with their clients and consistently able to
confront abuse patterns in society. The object relations approach
not only deals with trauma's impact on the individual but views it
in its cultural and interpersonal context as well. Society
alternately emphasizes and ignores trauma so that an encapsulated
traumatic experience festers until the next eruption, just as
dissociative defenses segmentally protect and exaggerate traumatic
experience in the individual case. The Scharffs review Kramer's
Mahlerian approach, McDougall's insights into the silence of the
psyche and the words of the soma, and Anzieu's elaboration of the
body ego. They resuscitate Freud's seduction hypothesis and the
traumatic basis of the repetition compulsion. They compare and
contrast the concepts of re
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.
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. Michael
Stadter and David Scharff bring together contributions describing
how each of these elements, as well as their simple and direct
manifestations in the physical world, also combine to form the
psychological dimensions of symbolic reality both in the inner
world and in the transactional world. They also reveal how, in
encounters between patient and therapist, the combination of inner
worlds form a new, uniquely psychological, fourth dimension that
saturates the activity and experience of the other three elements.
This book aims to increase our understanding of the action of the
three dimensions of psychotherapy by looking at the elements that
constitute the setting and process in which clinicians engage every
day. The contributors, all of whom are experienced psychotherapists
and psychoanalysts, connect their thinking on the dimensions to
clinical practice by illustrating their ideas with case material
and examining their impact on general treatment issues. This book
will be useful to practicing psychotherapists and psychoanalysts
and students of psychoanalysis and philosophy.
Fairbairn and Sutherland were radical psychoanalytic thinkers who
deeply respected Freud's invention of psychoanalysis, but who
disagreed with his idea that human infants are motivated by the
need to discharge tension arising from sexual and aggressive
instincts. Fairbairn argued on the contrary that what infants need
is to be in a meaningful relationship, and Sutherland carried
forward Fairbairn's thinking on the development of the person as a
member of a social group.
International contributors set these psychoanalytic theorists in
their philosophical and cultural context and discuss their
acceptance in Germany and France. They re-examine Fairbairn and
Sutherland's concepts in the light of current clinical experience,
illuminate their concepts with contemporary psychoanalytic
theories, and apply them in psychotherapy with children, adults,
groups and families, and consultation to organisations.
This book will be valuable reading for all practicing and training
psychotherapists andpsychoanalysts. It summarizes theory, sets it
in context, and illustrated the concepts with clinical examples.
In their groundbreaking A Primer of Object Relations, Jill Savege
Scharff and David E. Scharff answered readers' questions about this
burgeoning field in remarkably clear and readable prose. It is
difficult to imagine any other team of authors who could provide
such a comprehensive survey of the broad applications of object
relations theory and in the second edition of this authoritative
work, the Scharffs draw from their years of clinical experience to
create an inclusive and up-to-date manual for object relations
theory that is certain to become a classic in the field.
This book widens the scope of clinical and theoretical
contributions on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis by collecting
case presentations and discussions by analysts from Europe, North
America, Latin America, China and Australia. The rich
cross-fertilization across countries and analytic orientations
stimulates cross-cultural thinking and deepens clinical
exploration. In English language psychoanalysis, focus on object
relations theory emphasizes internalization of early family figures
in construction of the psyche, and their projective influence on
others through continuing family interaction. Theories of the link
and of the field explored in South America and Europe, shift focus
from the internal life of the individual onto the influence of the
other, and the way superordinate unconscious patterns introjected
from previous generations are recreated by interacting members of
families and couples, and in turn contribute to the continuing
psychic evolution of individuals. Work in other cultures, such as
China, brings us face to face with deep structures of thought and
family organization that challenge Western psychoanalytic
assumptions, even as those families are in rapid change themselves.
In this landmark book, David Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff, both
psychoanalysts, develop a way of thinking about and working with
the couple as a small group of two, held together as a tightly knit
system by a commitment that is powerfully reinforced by the bond of
mutual sexual pleasure.
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.
In the last two decades, object relations theory has crossed the
Atlantic and taken America by storm. The enthusiasm among American
clinicians for the British School, however, has led to a host of
problems related to the need to master a new terminology. The
difficulty in assimilating object relations theory is one more
example of the aphorism that America and England are two countries
separated by a common language. The Scharffs have taken a giant
step forward in assisting American therapists in their efforts to
master the language of object relations theory. With this primer
they have anticipated the reader's questions at every turn and have
answered them in remarkably clear and readable prose. Terms like
projective identification, holding, containment, and self are freed
from obscurity and made entirely understandable to even the novice
clinician. The authors then apply these concepts to a variety of
clinical settings. The Scharffs are equally at home when doing
individual, family, marital, group, or sex therapy. It is difficult
to imagine any other team of authors who could provide such a
comprehensive survey of the broad applications of object relations
theory. Students in all the mental health professions will find
this slim volume to be an extraordinarily useful introduction to
the field.
Object relations theory has caused a fundamental reorientation of
psychodynamic thought. In Object Relations Theory and Practice, Dr.
David E. Scharff acclimates readers to the language and culture of
this therapeutic perspective and provides carefully selected
excerpts from seminal theorists as well as explanations of their
thinking and clinical experience. He offers readers an unparalleled
resource for understanding object relations psychotherapy and
theory and applying it to the practice of psychotherapy and
psychoanalysis. The book's sequence establishes the centrality of
relationships in this theory: the internalization of experience
with parents, splitting, projective identification, the role of the
relationship between mother and young child in development, and
transference and countertransference in the therapeutic action of
psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. This book will introduce students
to the basics, to the widening scope of object relations theory,
and to its application to psychoanalysis and individual, group, and
family psychotherapy.
Offers an indepth and thoughtful exploration of the relevance of
psychoanalysis to family therapy.
Using Winnicott's classic paper as its starting point, this
fascinating collection explores a range of clinical and theoretical
psychoanalytic perspectives around relating to "the object." Each
author approaches the topic from a different angle, switching among
the patient's use of others in their internal and external lives,
their use of their therapist, and the therapist's own use of their
patients. The use of objects is susceptible to wide interpretation
and elaboration; it is both a normal phenomenon and a marker for
certain personal difficulties, or even psychopathologies, seen in
clinical practice. While it is normal for people to relate to
others through the lens of their internal objects in ways that give
added meaning to aspects of their lives, it becomes problematic
when people live as if devoid of a self and instead live almost
exclusively through the others who form their internal worlds,
often leading them to feel that they cannot be happy until and
unless others change. Assessing the significance of objects among
adult and child patients, groups and the group-as-object, and
exploring Freud's own use of objects, The Use of the Object in
Psychoanalysis will be of significant interest both to experienced
psychoanalysts and psychotherapists and to trainees exploring
important theoretical questions.
Offers an indepth and thoughtful exploration of the relevance of
psychoanalysis to family therapy.
Substantial contributions from an internationally varied host of
authors use newly available material to develop novel aspects of
Fairbairn s life and theory, reviewing the basic ideas of his
theory, clinical application, and new developments built on his
object relations vision of psychoanalysis. Comprising thirty-nine
papers, thirty-six of which are original to this volume, the book
is divided into four main sections historical, clinical,
theoretical and applied. Fairbairn s contribution to
object-relations theory is rehearsed and the future development of
Fairbairn s work is considered. Fairbairn s relationship with
Guntrip and Winnicott is explored, his influence on a philosophical
and a clinical understanding of multiplicity is assessed, his
social and historical papers are mined for his views on prejudice
and the social order, and new models of clinical configurations
suggested. Fairbairn s relationship with and influence on Mitchell
is investigated from different perspectives and his position within
Scottish and psychoanalytic history also developed. Fairbairn s
contribution to couple therapy, to an understanding of the Oedipus
situation, to the acceptance and understanding of literary works
and to child welfare are all broached. The influence of religion
and Fairbairn s own understanding of his gender identity are
explored based on newly available documents including some
self-analytic notes. Fairbairn s influence in South America and in
particular Argentina is manifest in a variety of contributions, and
his significant but generally forgotten or ignored contribution to
psychoanalytic aesthetics is assessed."
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