Fairbairn S Object Relations Theory In The Clinical Setting

Author : David P. Celani
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 241 pages
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Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780231520232

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W. R. D. Fairbairn (1889-1964) challenged the dominance of Freud's drive theory with a psychoanalytic theory based on the internalization of human relationships. Fairbairn assumed that the unconscious develops in childhood and contains dissociated memories of parental neglect, insensitivity, and outright abuse that are impossible the children to tolerate consciously. In Fairbairn's model, these dissociated memories protect developing children from recognizing how badly they are being treated and allow them to remain attached even to physically abusive parents. Attachment is paramount in Fairbairn's model, as he recognized that children are absolutely and unconditionally dependent on their parents. Kidnapped children who remain attached to their abusive captors despite opportunities to escape illustrate this intense dependency, even into adolescence. At the heart of Fairbairn's model is a structural theory that organizes actual relational events into three self-and-object pairs: one conscious pair (the central ego, which relates exclusively to the ideal object in the external world) and two mostly unconscious pairs (the child's antilibidinal ego, which relates exclusively to the rejecting parts of the object, and the child's libidinal ego, which relates exclusively to the exciting parts of the object). The two dissociated self-and-object pairs remain in the unconscious but can emerge and suddenly take over the individual's central ego. When they emerge, the "other" is misperceived as either an exciting or a rejecting object, thus turning these internal structures into a source of transferences and reenactments. Fairbairn's central defense mechanism, splitting, is the fast shift from central ego dominance to either the libidinal ego or the antilibidinal ego-a near perfect model of the borderline personality disorder. In this book, David Celani reviews Fairbairn's five foundational papers and outlines their application in the clinical setting. He discusses the four unconscious structures and offers the clinician concrete suggestions on how to recognize and respond to them effectively in the heat of the clinical interview. Incorporating decades of experience into his analysis, Celani emphasizes the internalization of the therapist as a new "good" object and devotes entire sections to the treatment of histrionic, obsessive, and borderline personality disorders.

Author : David P. Celani
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231149075

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Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting by David P. Celani Pdf

W. R. D. Fairbairn (1889-1964) challenged the dominance of Freud's drive theory with a psychoanalytic theory based on the internalization of human relationships. Fairbairn assumed that the unconscious develops in childhood and contains dissociated memories of parental neglect, insensitivity, and outright abuse that are impossible the children to tolerate consciously. In Fairbairn's model, these dissociated memories protect developing children from recognizing how badly they are being treated and allow them to remain attached even to physically abusive parents. Attachment is paramount in Fairbairn's model, as he recognized that children are absolutely and unconditionally dependent on their parents. Kidnapped children who remain attached to their abusive captors despite opportunities to escape illustrate this intense dependency, even into adolescence. At the heart of Fairbairn's model is a structural theory that organizes actual relational events into three self-and-object pairs: one conscious pair (the central ego, which relates exclusively to the ideal object in the external world) and two mostly unconscious pairs (the child's antilibidinal ego, which relates exclusively to the rejecting parts of the object, and the child's libidinal ego, which relates exclusively to the exciting parts of the object). The two dissociated self-and-object pairs remain in the unconscious but can emerge and suddenly take over the individual's central ego. When they emerge, the "other" is misperceived as either an exciting or a rejecting object, thus turning these internal structures into a source of transferences and reenactments. Fairbairn's central defense mechanism, splitting, is the fast shift from central ego dominance to either the libidinal ego or the antilibidinal ego-a near perfect model of the borderline personality disorder. In this book, David Celani reviews Fairbairn's five foundational papers and outlines their application in the clinical setting. He discusses the four unconscious structures and offers the clinician concrete suggestions on how to recognize and respond to them effectively in the heat of the clinical interview. Incorporating decades of experience into his analysis, Celani emphasizes the internalization of the therapist as a new "good" object and devotes entire sections to the treatment of histrionic, obsessive, and borderline personality disorders.

Author : David P. Celani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015029718601

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The Treatment of the Borderline Patient by David P. Celani Pdf

Reviews the theoretical work of W.R.D. Fairbairn and describes a pragmatic approach based on that theoretical foundation. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : David P. Celani
Publisher : International Universities PressInc
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0823683249

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The Treatment of the Borderline Patient by David P. Celani Pdf

"This book describes a practical, accessible, hands-on approach to the psychotherapeutic treatment of the borderline patient. The perspective presented is particularly suited to the clinician who has many such patients to face, but who is intimidated by psychoanalytic theory. The tactics and techniques described are based on two of the most obvious aspects of pathological behavior seen in borderline patients: 1) their massive dependency on parents, or new partners, who frustrate them endlessly, and 2) their refusal to give up hope on these "Bad Objects" despite a history of severe disappointment." "The theoretical model behind this dependency-based analysis of the borderline condition stems from the nearly forgotten work of W.R.D. Fairbairn, whose views have reemerged in the current writings of Kernberg, Masterson, Rinsley, and Gerald Adler. Fairbairn produced the first true Object Relations model in which he replaced the Freudian notion of the primacy of biological/instinctual motivation with a model based on attachment to objects. His first four theoretical papers are carefully reviewed and form the foundation for the methodology presented throughout the book." "The therapeutic techniques described are pragmatic, accessible, and based on the overall perspective that the borderline patient is pursing objects who have a powerful grip over him or her due to the mixture of hope and frustration that activates an internal state of extreme longing. This desperate internal state of longing for an object is a consequence of developmental deprivation and is generated, either unilaterally by the patient, or in other cases by the manipulations and implied promises emitted by the object. The therapeutic strategies that are described are accompanied by extensive examples." "Many of the techniques are targeted for specific borderline defenses, such as splitting, where the patient suddenly shifts from a position of unrealistic hope in their "Exciting Object" to abject despair when the same person is perceived (often only moments later) as a "Rejecting Object." There are also strategies for helping patients reduce their attachment to internalized objects as well as an in-depth discussion on the management of transference, which is conceptualized as the projection of internalized objects and egos into the therapeutic dyad." "Finally, there are techniques that help the therapist maximize his or her "introjectibility," which is designed to replace the patient's reliance on past destructive internalized objects with newly acquired positive internalizations of the therapist. This book can be used alone, as a handbook for the treatment of the borderline, or in conjuction with pre-existing models, many of which owe part of their structure to Fairbairn's original work."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Graham S. Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429913532

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Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition by Graham S. Clarke Pdf

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.

Author : Jay R. Greenberg,Stephen A. Mitchell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674417007

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Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory by Jay R. Greenberg,Stephen A. Mitchell Pdf

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.

Author : Frank Summers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000966992

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Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology by Frank Summers Pdf

Book is used on many psychoanalytic training courses, including in China, and new edition brings it up to date * Covers classic analysts such as Kohut and contemporary ones such as Kernberg * Offers a comprehensive guide to object relations theory and practice

Author : David E. Scharff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Attachment behavior
ISBN : 9781568214191

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Object Relations Theory and Practice by David E. Scharff Pdf

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.

Author : Frederico Pereira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429899294

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Fairbairn and Relational Theory by Frederico Pereira Pdf

The richness of Fairbairn's work is demonstrated in a series of essays offering a unique exploration of the application of his concepts to diverse areas ranging from philosophy to psychopathology. This volume opens with an examination of the origins and relevance of Fairbairn's ideas and subsequently turns to the application of his theory to the study of depression, hysteria, and to the field of liason psychiatry. Fairbairn's ideas are further applied to the study of dreams and aesthetics in two original essays. The book concludes with a delineation of the future of his contribution to contemporary theories of object relations and to the emergence of a new psychoanalytic paradigm.

Author : William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Psychoanalysis
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010519184

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From Instinct to Self: Applications and early contributions by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn Pdf

Author : Frank Summers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317771401

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Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology by Frank Summers Pdf

In Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Text, Frank Summers provides thorough, lucid, and critically informed accounts of the work of major object relations theorists: Fairbairn, Guntrip, Klein, Winnicott, Kernberg, and Kohut. His expositions achieve distinction on two counts. First, the work of each object relations theorist is presented as a comprehensive whole, with separate sections expounding the theorist's ideas and assumptions about metapsychology, development, psychopathology, and treatment, with a critical evaluation of the strengths and limitations of the theory in question. Second, the emphasis in each chapter is on issues of clinical understanding and technique. Making extensive use of case material provided by each of the theorists, he shows how each object relations theory yields specific clinical approaches to a variety of syndromes, and how these approaches entail specific modifications in clinical technique. Beyond his detailed attention to the theoretical and technical differences among object relations theories, Summers' penultimate chapter discusses the similarities and differences of object relations and interpersonal theories. And his concluding chapter outlines a pragmatic object relations approach to development, psychopathology, and technique that combines elements of all object relations theories without opting for any single theory. Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology is that rare event in psychoanalytic publishing: a substantial, readable text that surveys a broad expanse of theoretical and clinical landscape with erudition, sympathy, and critical perspective. It will be essential reading for all analysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers who wish to familiarize themselves with object relations theories in general, sharpen their understanding of the work of specific object relations theorists, or enhance their ability to employ these theories in their clinical work.

Author : Jill Savege Scharff,David E. Scharff, M.D.
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461662495

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The Primer of Object Relations by Jill Savege Scharff,David E. Scharff, M.D. Pdf

This is the second edition of a comprehensive manual that has become a classic in the field. In clear, readable prose it describes object relations theory and its use in psychotherapy.

Author : Neil J. Skolnick,David E. Scharff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134897261

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Fairbairn, Then and Now by Neil J. Skolnick,David E. Scharff Pdf

W. R. D. Fairbairn was both a precursor and an architect of revolutionary change in psychoanalysis. Through a handful of tightly reasoned papers written in the 1940s and 1950s, Fairbairn emerged as an incisive, albeit relatively obscure, voice in the wilderness, at considerable remove from mainstream Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis. But in the 1970s Harry Guntrip made Fairbairn's thinking more accessible to a wide readership, and Fairbairn's object relations theory, with its innovative theoretical and clinical concepts, was at the center of the turn toward relational thinking that swept psychoanalysis in the 1980s and 1990s. Fairbairn, Then and Now is a landmark volume, because a thorough grasp of Fairbairn's contribution is crucial to any understanding of what is taking place within psychoanalysis today. And Fairbairn's work remains a treasure trove of rich insights into the problems and issues in theory and clinical practice with which analysts and therapists are struggling today. This is a particularly propitious time for renewed focus on Fairbairn's contribution. A wealth of previously unpublished material has recently emerged, and the implications of Fairbairn's ideas for current developments in trauma, dissociation, infant research, self theory, field theory, and couple and family therapy are becoming increasingly clear. The conference that stimulated the contributions to this volume by internationally eminent Fairbairn clinicians and scholars was a historically important event, and Fairbairn, Then and Now makes the intellectual ferment generated by this event available to all interested readers.

Author : Cheryl Glickauf-Hughes,Marolyn Wells
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461629818

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Object Relations Psychotherapy by Cheryl Glickauf-Hughes,Marolyn Wells Pdf

"Glickauf-Hughes and Wells present a clear and well-organized review of personality development according to object relations theorists. They offer an explanation and critique of each major theorist, note issues on which there is disagreement (along with areas of investigation not fully explored), and present implications for treatment. Concepts are well defined, and one gets the sense of a cohesive body of knowledge (possibly more cohesive than it actually is). Those unfamiliar with object-relations theory will have a good outline; those who know enough to be confused will find some clarification." —Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research

Author : David Celani
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780231134774

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Leaving Home by David Celani Pdf

Relinquishing family attachments that failed to meet childhood needs is the most difficult task individuals can undertake as they grow into adulthood. Leaving Home not only emphasizes the life-saving benefits of separating from toxic parents but also offers a viable program for personal emancipation. David P. Celani centers his program on Object Relations Theory, a branch of psychoanalysis developed by Scottish analyst Ronald Fairbairn. The human personality, Fairbairn argued, is not the result of inherited (and thus immutable) instincts. Rather, the developing child builds internal relational templates rooted in conscious and unconscious memories he internalized in childhood, and these guide his future interactions with others. While an attachment to neglectful or even abusive parents is not uncommon, there is a way out. Eloquent, relatable, and filled with rich examples taken from more than two decades of clinical practice, Leaving Home outlines the practical steps necessary to become a healthy adult.