Fairbairn and the object-relations tradition /edited by Graham S. Clarke and David E. Scharff.

Includes bibliographies and index.

HISTORICAL -- Introduction To Part I / David E. Scharff -- From instinct to self: the evolution and implications of W.R.D. Fairbairn's theory of object relations / Ellinor Fairbairn Birtles -- From Oedipus to Antigone: Hegelian themes in Fairbairn / Gal Gerson -- Making Fairbairn's psychoanalysis thinkable: Henry Drummond's natural laws of the spiritual world / Gavin Miller -- Splitting in the history of psychoanalysis: from Janet and Freud to Fairbairn, passing through Ferenczi and Suttie / Gabriele Cassullo -- Fairbairn, Suttie, and Macmurray -- an essay / Neville Symington -- Religion in the life and work of W.R.D. Fairbairn / Lowell W. Hoffman -- Fairbairn and homosexuality: sex versus conscience / Hilary J. Beattie -- Fairbairn in Argentina: the "Fairbairn Space" in the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA) / Ruben M. Basili -- Some comments about Ronald Fairbairn's impact today / Otto F. Kernberg -- CLINICAL -- Introduction To Part II / David E. Scharff -- Why read Fairbairn? / Thomas H. Ogden -- On the origin of internal objects in the works of Fairbairn and Klein and the possible therapeutic consequences / Bernhard F. Hensel -- Fairbairn: Oedipus reconfigured by trauma / Eleanore M. Armstrong-Perlman -- Sitting with marital tensions: the work of Henry Dicks in applying Fairbairn's ideas to couple relationships / Molly Ludlam -- W.R.D. Fairbairn's contribution to the study of personality disorders / Carlos Rodriguez-Sutil -- Fairbairn: abuse, trauma, and multiplicity / Valerie Sinason -- Fairbairn and multiple personality / Graham S. Clarke -- Fairbairn and "emptiness pathology" / Luis Oswald -- Fairbairn's unique contributions to dream interpretation / Joshua Levy -- The analyst as good object: a Fairbairnian perspective / Neil J. Skolnick -- Expanding Fairbairn's reach / David E. Scharff -- THEORETICAL -- Introduction To Part III / David E. Scharff -- The contribution of W.R.D. Fairbairn (1889 -- 1965) to psychoanalytic theory and practice / John Padel -- John Padel's contribution to an understanding of Fairbairn's object relations theory / Graham S. Clarke -- Fairbairn elaborated: Guntrip and the psychoanalytic romantic model / Michael Stadter -- From Fairbairn to Winnicott / Henri Vermorel -- Fairbairn and Ferenczi / Graham S. Clarke -- Mitchell reading Fairbairn / Ariel Liberman -- Fairbairn's influence on Stephen Mitchell's theoretical and clinical work / Aleksandar Dimitrijevic -- Self and society, trauma and the link / Jill Savege Scharff -- Fairbairn and Pichon-Riviere: object relations, link, and group / Lea S. de Setton -- The "intuitive position" and its relationship to creativity, science, and art in Fairbairn's work / Ricardo Juan Rey -- Revising Fairbairn's structural theory / David P. Celani -- Fairbairn's accomplishment is good science / Joseph Schwartz -- Fairbairn and partitive conceptions of mind / Tamas Pataki -- Fairbairn and the philosophy of intersubjectivity / James L. Poulton -- APPLICATIONS -- Introduction To Part IV / David E. Scharff -- Fair play: a restitution of Fairbairn's forgotten role in the historical drama of art and psychoanalysis / Steven Z. Levine -- Viewing Camus's The Stranger from the perspective of W.R.D. Fairbairn's object relations / Rainer Rehberger -- The family is the first social group, followed by the clan, tribe, and nation / Ron B. Aviram -- Fairbairn's object relations theory and social work in child welfare / James C. Raines.

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. One of the most fascinating aspects of the papers collected here is that many of them point towards further development of the object relations approach by detailed examination of some of Fairbairn's papers that have so far been less recognised. The writers in this volume evince the hope that the further development of the object relations paradigm will not only benefit clinical work, but will also extend beyond the psychoanalytic clinical realm to psychosocial and cultural issues.

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