The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland : Psychotherapeutic Applications

The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland provides the first comprehensive review of W.R.D. Fairbairn and John Sutherland's theories on psycho-social development. It reviews Fairbairn and Sutherland's ideas, traces the philosophical roots of their thinking, explores their legacy, and demonstrates their relevance to contemporary practice. International contributors set these psychoanalytic theories in their philosophical and cultural context. They discuss the growing acceptance of Fairbairn and Sutherland's work in Europe and the Americas. They discuss the theories' impact on current thinking in subjects such as sexuality, hysteria, autonomy and repression. They re-examine the theories in the light of current clinical experience, illuminate them with reference to contemporary psychoanalytic theories and illustrate them with examples from work with children, adults, groups and families. This book presents an original fusion of the ideas of two of the most noteworthy figures in recent psychoanalysis. It will prove fascinating reading for all practicing and training psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. The development of Fairbairn's theory / David E. Scharff The persons-in-relation perspective: sources and synthesis / Colin Kirkwood Difference, repetition, and continuity: philosophical reflections on Fairbairn's concept of mature dependence / Ellinor Fairbairn Birtles Fairbairn in France since 1955 / Henri Vermorel Fairbairn in Germany / Rainer Rehberger An object relations view of sexuality based on Fairbairn's theory / Bernhard F. Hensel Satisfactory, exciting, and rejecting objects in health and sex / Jill S. Scharff, David E. Scharff From Fairbairn to a new systemization of psychopathology: the intuitive position and the alienated and oscillating structures / Ricardo Juan Rey How current are Fairbairn's ideas on hysteria today? / Ute Rupprecht-Schampera The real relationship with the analyst as a new object / Peter Potthoff Fairbairn's object relations theory: explaining the refusal to cathect the analyst / Sabine Vuaillat Dissociation and repression in trauma / Sabine Wollnik-Krusche Fairbairn's theory, borderline pathology, and schizoid conflict / Ruben Mario Basili, Isabel Sharpin de Basili Disorder and early sorrow: an integration of the motivational system of aversion and Fairbairn's endopsychic structure in child treatment / Theresa Aiello Fairbairn on trauma: individual therapy of a sexually abused child / Hope Cooper The nemesis within: women, relationship addiction, and the moral defence / Carol Tosone Aggression in the couple relationship: Fairbairn's object relations theory and Hendrix's imago relationship theory / Stephen Plumlee Theories of art and theory as art / Torbjorn Borgegord The self and personal (object) relations / John D. Sutherland The legacy of John D. Sutherland: self and society / Jill Savege Scharff Personal relations theory: Suttie, Fairbairn, Macmurray, and Sutherland / Graham Clarke Autonomy, the autonomous self, and the inter-human: philosophy and psychoanalysis in the teaching of Sutherland / Neville Singh The social-object and the pathology of prejudice / Ron B. Aviram Application: organizational consultancy / Judith Brearley Object relations and attachment dynamics in group psychotherapy: the communication, regulation, and exploration of affective states / Una McCluskey Extending Fairbairn and Sutherland's socio-intrapsychic model to assessment and treatment of a stepfamily / Carl Bagnini Teaching and learning object relations theory with the group affective model / Lea de Setton ... [et al.]. "The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland provides the first comprehensive review of W. R. D. Fairbairn's and John Sutherland's theories on psycho-social development. It gathers Fairbairn's and Sutherland's ideas, traces the philosophical roots of their thinking, explores their legacy, and demonstrates their relevance to contemporary practice." "International contributors set these psychoanalytic theories in their philosophical and cultural context. They discuss the growing acceptance of Fairbairn's and Sutherland's work in Europe and the Americas. They discuss the theories' impact on current thinking in subjects such as sexuality, hysteria, autonomy and repression. They re-examine the theories in the light of current clinical experience, illuminate them with reference to contemporary psychoanalytic theories and illustrate them with examples from work with children, adults, groups and families."--BOOK JACKET In this book international contributors re-examine Fairbairn and Sutherlands' concepts in the light of current clinical experience, illuminate their concepts with contemporary psychoanalytic theories, and apply them in psychotherapy