W. Ronald D Fairbairn

First published in 1952, W.R.D. Fairbairn's Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality is his most well known book and it re-oriented psychoanalysis by centreing human development on the infant's innate need for relationships, describing the process of splitting and the internal dynamic relationship between ego and object. His elegant theory is still a vital framework of psychoanalytic theory and practice, infant research, group practice and family therapy.

This present book is a collection of papers that charts the progress of Fairbairn's thinking and illuminates the theory and practice of the new object relations school… (altro)

This volume is especially useful in orienting students and clinicians to the current practice of psychoanalysis as it has developed in the latter part of the twentieth century.

David E. Scharff, MD is the Director of the Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, DC. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and at Georgetown University Medical School and a Teaching Analyst in the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. Ellinor Fairbairn Birtles, the daughter of the late W. R. D. Fairbairn, is Director of SITA Technology, Ltd.

Excellent text; a fundamental necessity in the understanding of object relations theory. Comprehensive and clearly written which makes the text valuable for student reading. It is a complex theory written in an understanding style.… (altro)