Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition (The Lines of Development) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367101297 ISBN 13: 9780367101299

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Graham S Clarke, David E Scharff

Review:

"This is an extraordinary work: extraordinary in many ways. The choice of the subject, Fairbairn; the unusually well-crafted editing; the number of Fairbairn scholars who made contributions; and the editorial choreography of the contributions. By 'editorial choreography' I began to wonder if it had been written by a single author, partially because the flow of the chapters appeared seamlessly connected, and yet in its vastness the work was virtually all inclusive in dealing with Fairbairn's works - to say nothing of being inclusive of many of his unpublished works, which the Fairbairn family put at the editors' disposal. This is a gem of a book. I do so much want it to be successful: it is much needed."--James S. Grotstein

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0367101297
• ISBN 13: 9780367101299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 554
• Editor: S. Clarke Graham, Scharff David E.