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Object Relations Theory and Practice

An Introduction

By: David E. Scharff

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Object Relations Theory and Practice

An Introduction

By: David E. Scharff

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.

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1568214197

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9781568214191

Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China

Volume 1

By: David E. Scharff

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Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China

Volume 1

By: David E. Scharff

This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles authored by Chinese and Western contributors, to explore ideas that apply to the Chinese clinical population, cultural issues relevant to the practice of analysis and psychotherapy, and to the cultural interface between Western ideas underpinning psychoanalysis, and the richness of Chinese intellectual and philosophical ideas that analysis must encounter in the process of its introduction. The journal will be published first in English and is also planned to be published in Chinese through a collaboration with a Chinese partner. We will feature theoretical and clinical contributions, philosophical and cultural explorations, applications such as the analytic study of art, cinema and theatre, social aspects of analytic thought, and wider cultural and social issues that set the context for clinical practice.

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Routledge

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0429917775

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9780429917776

Object Relations Individual Therapy

By: Jill Savege Scharff,David E. Scharff

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Object Relations Individual Therapy

By: Jill Savege Scharff,David E. Scharff

Emphasizing the transformational possibilities that grow out of their relational model of therapy, David E. and Jill Savege Scharff invite us into the territory of interactive journeys with individual patients. A contemporary classic.

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655

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Jason Aronson

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1461662478

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9781461662471

The Primer of Object Relations

By: Jill Savege Scharff,David E. Scharff

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The Primer of Object Relations

By: Jill Savege Scharff,David E. Scharff

The two psychotherapists (both psychiatry, Georgetown U.) expand and update their initial explanation of the British object relations theory to clarify some of the arguments and incorporate developments in the theory and its practice over the past decade. It is a theory of the human personality developed from stying the therapist-patient relationship as it reflects the mother-infant dyad. No date is noted for the first edition. Annotation : 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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274

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0765703475

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9780765703477

The Interpersonal Unconscious

By: David E. Scharff,Jill Savege Scharff

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The Interpersonal Unconscious

By: David E. Scharff,Jill Savege Scharff

This book presents the unconscious mind as the product of interpersonal interaction—in its formation and in its growth and development across the life cycle. Many clinical examples illustrate the theory of the interpersonal unconscious and its application to individual psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, couple and family therapy, and child therapy, and to teaching mental health professionals nationally and internationally.

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Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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0765708701

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9780765708700

Fairbairn’s Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting

By: David P. Celani

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Fairbairn’s Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting

By: David P. Celani

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.

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Columbia University Press

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0231520239

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9780231520232

Marriage and Family in Modern China

A Psychoanalytic Exploration

By: David E. Scharff

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Marriage and Family in Modern China

A Psychoanalytic Exploration

By: David E. Scharff

Marriage and Family in Modern China is a groundbreaking psychoanalytic examination of how 70 years of widespread social change have transformed the intimacies of life in modern China. The book describes the evolution of marriage and family structure, from the ancient tradition of large families preferring sons, arranged marriages and devaluation of girls, to a contemporary dominance of free-choice marriages and families that now prefer to remain small even after the ending of the One Child Policy. David Scharff uses extensive reports of his psychoanalytic interventions to demonstrate how the residue of widespread trauma suffered by Chinese families during past centuries has interacted with the effects of rapid modernization to produce new patterns of individual identity, personal ambition and family structure. This wholly original book offers new insight into Chinese families for all those interested in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and in the intricacies of Chinese domestic life.

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Routledge

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1000299163

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9781000299168

Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China

Volume 1

By: David E. Scharff

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Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China

Volume 1

By: David E. Scharff

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A Psychoanalytic Exploration

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A Psychoanalytic Exploration

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Object Relations Theory and Practice

An Introduction

By: David E. Scharff

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An Introduction

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Book's by David E. Scharff

Object Relations Theory and Practice

Object Relations Theory and Practice

Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China

Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China

Object Relations Individual Therapy

Object Relations Individual Therapy

The Primer of Object Relations

The Primer of Object Relations

The Interpersonal Unconscious

The Interpersonal Unconscious

Fairbairn’s Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting

Fairbairn’s Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting

Marriage and Family in Modern China

Marriage and Family in Modern China

Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China

Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China

Marriage and Family in Modern China

Marriage and Family in Modern China

Object Relations Theory and Practice

Object Relations Theory and Practice

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