Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology - A Comprehensive Text

Twenty-nine years since the first edition was released, Frank Summers has renewed his lucid and thorough clarification of the various object relations theories to demonstrate their evolution and continued significance for therapeutic practice.

List of contents

1. The Origins of Object Relations Theories 2. Fairbairn and His Legacy 3. The Kleinian School 4. Winnicott and Related Theorists 5. The Work of Otto Kernberg 6. Self-Psychology 7. Relational Analysis 8. An Object Relations Paradigm for Psychoanalysis

About the author

Frank Summers, Ph.D., ABPP, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst; professor of clinical psychiatry and the behavioural sciences, Northwestern University; and a supervising and training analyst, Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. A former president of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association, he maintains a psychoanalytic therapy practice in Chicago, Illinois.

Summary

Twenty-nine years since the first edition was released, Frank Summers has renewed his lucid and thorough clarification of the various object relations theories to demonstrate their evolution and continued significance for therapeutic practice.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Summers, Summers Frank
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032779317
• ISBN: 978-1-03-277931-7
• No. of pages: 364
• Dimensions: 174 mm x 246 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)