Thinking through Fairbairn offers parallel perspectives on Fairbairn’s work. It explores an extended interpretation of his "psychology of dynamic structure" and applies that model to a number of different areas. Fairbairn’s Scottish origins are explored through his relationship with the work of Ian Suttie and Edward Glover.
A new extended object relations model of fantasy and inner reality that reflects Fairbairn’s approach as represented by his contribution to the Controversial Discussions is also developed. In cooperation with Paul Finnegan, this version of Fairbairn’s model is applied to an understanding of multiple personality disorder or dissociative identity disorder. This model is combined with Fairbairn’s theory of art to provide an understanding of some "puzzle" films based in trauma and dissociation.
Fairbairn’s theory is presented here as a synthesis of classical and relational approaches, and his appropriation by relational theorists as a precursor to exclusively relational approaches challenged. The deep structure of Fairbairn’s object relations model is developed through a detailed comparison with Glover’s ego-nuclei model. Fairbairn’s nuanced view of instinct and affect is investigated and some parallels with neuropsychoanalysis developed. Finally some ways that the developed model might be further enhanced to become a general model are suggested.
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| Acknowledgements |
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| About The Author |
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| Preface |
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| Introduction: A new interpretation of Fairbairn's "psychology of dynamic structure" |
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PART I SCOTTISH CONTEMPORARIES |
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Chapter One Suttie's influence on Fairbairn's object relations theory |
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Chapter Two Fairbairn and Glover: object relationships and ego-nuclei |
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PART II MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER |
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Chapter Three Fairbairn's thinking on dissociative identity disorder and the development of his mature theory |
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Chapter Four Evelyn's PhD in Wellness---a Fairbairnian understanding of the therapeutic relationship with a woman with dissociative identity disorder |
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Chapter Five Failures of the "moral defence" in the films Shutter Island (Scorsese, 2010), Inception (Nolan, 2010), and Memento (Nolan, 2000): narcissism or schizoid personality disorder? |
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Chapter Six Trauma, dissociation, and time distortion in some "puzzle" films |
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PART IV RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS |
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Chapter Seven A modest proposal: Fairbairn's psychology of dynamic structure is not "between paradigms" but already a synthesis of classical and relational thinking |
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Chapter Eight Fairbairn's object-relations-based psychology of dynamic structure, as a synthesis of the classical (thesis) and the relational (antithesis) in psychoanalytic theory |
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PART V INSTINCT, AFFECT, AND NEUROPSYCHOANALYSIS |
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Chapter Nine The place of instincts and affects in Fairbairn's psychology of dynamic structures |
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Chapter Ten Thinking through Fairbairn redux |
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Graham S. Clarke, PhD, is Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, and author of 'Personal Relations Theory: Fairbairn, Macmurray and Suttie'.
