Fairbairn, Then and Now (Relational Perspectives Book Series, V. 10)

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 A wealth of previously unpublished material has recently emerged, and the implications of Fairbairn's ideas for current developments in trauma, dissociation, infant research, self theory, field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. Introduction / David E. Scharff And Neil J. Skolnick -- 1. The Scottish Connection -- Suttie-fairbairn-sutherland: A Quiet Revolution / J. Alan Harrow -- 2. Fairbairn's Contribution: An Interview Of Otto F. Kernberg / David E. Scharff -- 3. Developing Connections: Fairbairn's Philosophic Contribution / Ellinor Fairbairn Birtles -- 4. Repression And Dissociation -- Freud And Janet: Fairbairn's New Model Of Unconscious Process / Jody Messler Davies -- 5. A Comparison Of Fairbairn's Endopsychic Structure And Klein's Internal World / James S. Grotstein -- 6. The Dialectic Between W. R. D. Fairbairn And Wilfred Bion / Jeffrey Seinfeld -- 7. Fairbairn's Object Seeking: Between Paradigms / Stephen A. Mitchell -- 8. The Good, The Bad, And The Ambivalent: Fairbairn's Difficulty Locating The Good Object In The Endopsychic Structure / Neil J. Skolnick -- 9. Fairbairn And The Self: An Extension Of Fairbairn's Theory By Sutherland / Jill Savege Scharff. 10. Alter Egos -- Close Encounters Of The Paranoid Kind: W. R. D. Fairbairn, Salvador Dali, And Me / Steven Z. Levine -- 11. A Fairbairnian Analysis Of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde / Hilary J. Beattie -- 12. Fairbairn's Theory Of Depression / Richard L. Rubens -- 13. Structural Sources Of Resistance In Battered Women: A Fairbairnian Analysis / David P. Celani -- 14. Object Construction, Object Sorting, And Object Exclusion: Implications Of Family And Marital Therapy For Object Relations Theory / David E. Scharff. Edited By Neil J. Skolnick, David E. Scharff. Proceedings Of A Conference Held Oct. 4-6, 1996, At The New York Academy Of Medicine. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This volume explores Fairbairn's contribution to psychoanalysis in relation to developments, problems and, issues in theory and clinical practice since the 1940s and 1950s.