The book gathers an international group of therapists, analysts, psychiatrists, social commentators, and historians, who contend that Fairbairns work extends powerfully beyond the therapeutic. They suggest that social, cultural, and historical dimensions can all be illuminated by his work.
Ronald Fairbairn developed a thoroughgoing object relations theory that became a foundation for modern clinical thought. This volume is homage to the enduring power of his thinking, and of his importance now and for the future of relational thinking within the social and human sciences. The book gathers an international group of therapists, analysts, psychiatrists, social commentators, and historians, who contend that Fairbairn's work extends powerfully beyond the therapeutic. They suggest that social, cultural, and historical dimensions can all be illuminated by his work.Object relations as a strand within psychoanalysis began with Freud and passed through Ferenczi and Rank, Balint, Suttie, and Klein, to come of age in Fairbairn's papers of the early 1940s. That there is still life in this line of thinking is illustrated by the essays in this collection and by the modern relational turn in psychoanalytic theory, the development of attachment theory, and the increasing recognition that there is 'no such thing as an ego' without context, without relationships, without a social milieu.
Series Editors Foreword , Introduction , Introduction , Prologue ,
Historical , From instinct to self: the evolution and implications of W. R.
D. Fairbairns theory of object relations , From Oedipus to Antigone:
Hegelian themes in Fairbairn , Making Fairbairns psychoanalysis thinkable:
Henry Drummonds natural laws of the spiritual world , Splitting in the
history of psychoanalysis: from Janet and Freud to Fairbairn, passing through
Ferenczi and Suttie , Fairbairn, Suttie, and Macmurrayan essay , Religion in
the life and work of W. R. D. Fairbairn , Fairbairn and homosexuality: sex
versus conscience , Fairbairn in Argentina: the Fairbairn Space in the
Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA) , Some comments about Ronald
Fairbairns impact today , Clinical , Why read Fairbairn? , On the origin of
internal objects in the works of Fairbairn and Klein and the possible
therapeutic consequences , Fairbairn: Oedipus reconfigured by trauma ,
Sitting with marital tensions: The work of Henry Dicks in applying
Fairbairns ideas to couple relationships , W. R. D. Fairbairns contribution
to the study of personality disorders , Fairbairn: abuse, trauma, and
multiplicity , Fairbairn and multiple personality , Fairbairn and emptiness
pathology , Fairbairns unique contributions to dream interpretation , The
analyst as good object: A Fairbairnian perspective , Expanding Fairbairns
reach , Theoretical , The contribution of W. R. D. Fairbairn (18891965) to
psychoanalytic theory and practice , John Padels contribution to an
understanding of Fairbairns object relations theory , Fairbairn elaborated:
Guntrip and the psychoanalytic romantic model , From Fairbairn to Winnicott ,
Fairbairn and Ferenczi , Mitchell reading Fairbairn , Fairbairns influence
on Stephen Mitchells theoretical and clinical work , Self and society,
trauma and the link , Fairbairn and Pichon-Rivière: Object relations, link,
and group , The intuitive position and its relationship to creativity,
science, and art in Fairbairns work , Revising Fairbairns structural theory
, Fairbairns accomplishment is good science , Fairbairn and partitive
conceptions of mind , Fairbairn and the philosophy of intersubjectivity ,
Applications , Fair play: A restitution of Fairbairns forgotten role in the
historical drama of art and psychoanalysis , Viewing Camuss The Stranger
from the perspective of W. R. D. Fairbairns object relations , The family is
the first social group, followed by the clan, tribe, and nation , Fairbairns
object relations theory and social work in child welfare , Envoi
Graham S Clarke, David E Scharff
