Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Soc
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Soc

Author: Eda Goldstein

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-07-06

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1451603185

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Object Relations and Self Psychology are two leading schools of psychological thought discussed in social work classrooms and applied by practitioners to a variety of social work populations. Yet both groups have lacked a basic manual for teaching and reference -- until now. For them, Dr. Eda G. Goldstein's book fills a void on two fronts: Part I provides a readable, systematic, and comprehensive review of object relations and self psychology, while Part II gives readers a friendly, step-by-step description and illustration of basic treatment techniques. For educators, this textbook offers a learned and accessible discussion of the major concepts and terminology, treatment principles, and the relationship of object relations and self psychology to classic Freudian theory. Practitioners find within these pages treatment guidelines for such varied problems as illness and disability, the loss of a significant other, and such special problems as substance abuse, child maltreatment, and couple and family disruptions. In a single volume, Dr. Goldstein has met the complex challenges of education and clinical practice.

Object Relations and Self Psychology
Object Relations and Self Psychology

Author: Michael St. Clair

Publisher: Brooks Cole

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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This unique book makes object relations and self psychology accessible to students of psychology, counseling, and social work as well as to theologians and other theorists not familiar with recent psychoanalytical literature. The theories presented illuminate areas of childhood experiences such as relational problems and narcissistic and borderline personality disorders...Students will find clinical insights about object relations and self psychology. The issues, ideas, and controversies of these models of the person are clearly presented and readable. A balance between technical accuracy and simple clarity is maintained.

Theories of Object Relations
Theories of Object Relations

Author: Howard A. Bacal

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780231061025

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A comprehensive account of the work of the major contributors to object relations theories, this book covers the work of the major American and British contributors to object relations theory, focusing on the ways in which these theories anticipated and enriched the emerging field of self psychology.

Self and Others
Self and Others

Author: N. Gregory Hamilton, M.D.

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated

Published: 1999-11-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1461630630

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Self and Others is addressed to students and practitioners of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Its 19 chapters are divided into five evenly balanced parts. The first rubric, "Self, Others, and Ego," introduces us to the units of the intersubjective constitution we have come to know as object relations theory. The second rubric, "Developing Object Relations," is a confluence of lessons derived from infant studies and the psychotherapeutic process, specifically from the work of Mahler and Kernberg. Third, Hamilton integrates into an "Object Relations Continuum" Mahler's developmental stages and organizational series with nosological entities and levels of personality organization. Under the penultimate rubric, "Treatment," levels of object relatedness and types of psychopathology are grounded in considerations of technique in treatment, and generous clinical vignettes are provided to illustrate the technical issues cited. Last, the rubric of "Broader Contexts" takes object relations theory out of the consulting room into application areas that include folklore, myth, and transformative themes on the self, small and large groups, applications of object relations theory outside psychoanalysis, and the evolutionary history and politics of object relations theory. This volume thus presents an integrative theory of object relations that links theory with practice. But, more than that, Hamilton accomplishes his objective of delineating an integrative theory that is quite free of rivalry between schools of thought. An indispensable contribution to beginning psychoanalytic candidates and other practitioners as well as those who wish to see the application of object relations theories to fields outside of psychoanalysis. —Psychoanalytic Books: A Quarterly Journal of Reviews A Jason Aronson Book

Object Relations and Self Psychology
Object Relations and Self Psychology

Author: Michael St. Clair

Publisher: Brooks Cole

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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This unique book makes object relations and self psychology accessible to readers not familiar with recent psychoanalytical literature. The theories presented illuminate areas of childhood experiences such as ''relational'' problems and narcissistic and borderline personality disorders. Readers will find clinical insights about object relations and self psychology. The issues, ideas, and controversies of these models of the person are clearly presented and readable.

Self and Other
Self and Other

Author: Robert Rogers

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0814774431

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In Self and Other, Robert Rogers presents a powerful argument for the adoption of a theory of object relations, combining the best features of traditional psychoanalytic theory with contemporary views on attachment behavior and intersubjectivity. Rogers discusses theory in relation both to actual psychoanalytic case histories and imagined selves found in literature, and provides a critical rereading of the case histories of Freud, Winnicott, Lichtenstein, Sechehaye, and Bettelheim. At once scientific and humanistic, Self and Other engagingly draws from theoretical, clinical, and literary traditions. It will appeal to psychoanalysts as well as to literary scholars interested in the application of psychoanalysis to literature.

Object Relations, The Self and the Group
Object Relations, The Self and the Group

Author: Charles Ashbach

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-18

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1134831846

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This established text presents a framework for integrating group psychology with psychoanalytic theories of object relations, the ego and the self, through the perspective of general systems theory. It defines and discusses key constructs in each of the fields and illustrates them with practical examples.

Self Psychology
Self Psychology

Author: Peter A. Lessem

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated

Published: 2005-05-12

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1461630649

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This comprehensive, introductory text makes the concepts of self psychology accessible for students and clinicians. It begins with an overview of the development of Kohut's ideas, particularly those on narcissism and narcissistic development and explains the self object concept that is at the core of the self psychological vision of human experience. It also includes brief overviews, of the allied theoretical perspectives of intersubjectivity and motivational systems theory. Numerous clinical vignettes are furnished to illustrate theoretical concepts as well as one continuous case vignette that is woven throughout the book.

Transcending the Self
Transcending the Self

Author: Frank Summers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1317771230

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Despite the popularity of object relations theories, these theories are often abstract, with the relation between theory and clinical technique left vague and unclear. Now, in Transcending the Self: An Object Relations Model of Psychoanalytic Therapy, Summers answers the need for an integrative object relations model that can be understood and applied by the clinician in the daily conduct of psychoanalytic therapy. Drawing on recent infancy research, developmental psychology, and the works of major theorists, including Bollas, Benjamin, Fairbairn, Guntrip, Kohut, and Winnicott, Summers melds diverse object-relational contributions into a coherent viewpoint with broad clinical applications. The object relations model emerges as a distinct amalgam of interpersonal/relational and interpretive perspectives. It is a model that can help patients undertake the most gratifying and treacherous of personality journeys: that aiming at the transcendence of the childhood self. Self-transcendence, in Summers' sense, means moving beyond the profound limitations of early life via the therapeutically mediated creation of a newly meaningful and authentic sense of self. Following two chapters that present the empirical and theoretical basis of the model, he launches into clinical applications by presenting the concept of therapeutic action that derives from the model. Then, in three successive chapters, he applies the model to patients traditionally conceptualized as borderline, narcissistic, and neurotic. He concludes with a chapter that addresses more broadly the craft of conducting psychoanalytic therapy. Filled with richly detailed case discussions, Transcending the Self provides practicing clinicians with a powerful demonstration of how psychoanalytic therapy informed by an object relations model can effect radical personality change. It is an outstanding example of integrative theorizing in the service of a real-world therapeutic approach.

Self Psychology
Self Psychology

Author: Douglas Detrick

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 1317771656

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This collection of "comparisons and contrasts" explores Heinz Kohut's self psychology in relation to a wide-ranging group of modern thinkers, both inside and outside of analysis. Separate sections analyze self psychology alongside Freud and the first generation of psychoanalytic dissidents; British object relations theorists; and contemporary theorists like Kernberg, Mahler, Lacan, and Masterson.