Since publication of this volume in 1952, W. R. D. Fairbairn's focus on object relations has re-o... more Since publication of this volume in 1952, W. R. D. Fairbairn's focus on object relations has re-oriented psychoanalysis by placing the child's need for relationships at the centre of development. His object relations theory elaborated a model of psychic structure built upon the internalization and modification of experience with parents and other people of central importance to the child, and showed how the self or ego handles the dissatisfactions inevitable in all relationships through internalization of the object, followed by ego splitting and repression of painful internal object relations. Fairbairn's work has been the starting point for Bowlby's work on attachment, Guntrip and Sutherland's writing on the self, Dicks' contribution to understanding marriage, Kernberg's treatment of severe personality disorders, and Mitchell's relational theory. Fairbairn's ideas have become central to psychoanalysis; they often pass for truisms, making it hard to remember a time when the individual's need for relationships was not seen as the central focus of development and of therapy.
Since publication of this volume in 1952, W. R. D. Fairbairn's focus on object relations has re-o... more Since publication of this volume in 1952, W. R. D. Fairbairn's focus on object relations has re-oriented psychoanalysis by placing the child's need for relationships at the centre of development. His object relations theory elaborated a model of psychic structure built upon the internalization and modification of experience with parents and other people of central importance to the child, and showed how the self or ego handles the dissatisfactions inevitable in all relationships through internalization of the object, followed by ego splitting and repression of painful internal object relations. Fairbairn's work has been the starting point for Bowlby's work on attachment, Guntrip and Sutherland's writing on the self, Dicks' contribution to understanding marriage, Kernberg's treatment of severe personality disorders, and Mitchell's relational theory. Fairbairn's ideas have become central to psychoanalysis; they often pass for truisms, making it hard to remember a time when the individual's need for relationships was not seen as the central focus of development and of therapy.
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