Table Of ContentFairbairn, Then and Now
W. R. D. Fairbairn, Ph.D. in his consulting room
in Edinburgh, Scotland, about 1955
(photograph by his son Nicholas)
Fairbairn, Then and Now
RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVES BOOK SERIES
STEPHEN A. MITCHELL AND LEWIS AR.ON
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Practicing Psychotherapy in a Soul on the Couch: Spirituality,
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Affect in Psychoanalysis: Donnel B. Stem
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Neil Altman
The Analyst in the Inner City: Volume9
Race, Class, and Culture Stephen A. Mitchell
Through a Psychoanalytic Lens Influence and Autonomy in
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Volume4
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A Meeting ofM inds: Neil J. Skolnick and David E. Scharff,
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Life Experiences, and Relational Perspectives
Their Effects on Treatment on the Body
In Preparation
Emmanuel Ghent
Process and Paradox
Karen J. Maroda
Surrender and Transformation: Mutuality in Relational Analysis
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The Echo ofI nner Truth: A Psychoanalytic-Existential Synthesis
Fairbairn
THEN AND NOW
edited by
Neil J. Skolnick • David E. Scharff
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Fairbairn, then and now I edited by Neil J. Skolnick, David E. Scharff.
p. em - (Relational perspectives book series : v. 10)
Proceedings of a conference held Oct. 4-6, 1996, at the New York
Academy of Medicine.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-88163-262-7
1. Object relations (Psychoanalysis) 2. Psychoanalysis. 3. Fairbairn, W.
Ronald D. (William Ronald Dodds). I. Skolnick, Neil J. II. Scharff,
David E., 1941- . III. Series.
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Contents
Contributors .......................................... vii
Introduction ........................................... ix
David E. Scharff and Neil f. Skolnick
Part 1 Historical Connections
1 The Scottish Connection-Suttie-Fairbairn-Sutherland:
A Quiet Revolution ..................................... 3
J. Alan Harrow
2 Fairbairn's Contribution:
An Interview of Otto F. Kernberg ........................ 17
David E. Scharff
3 Developing Connections:
Fairbairn's Philosophic Contribution ..................... 33
Ellinor Fairbairn Birtles
Part 2 Theoretical Connections: To the Past
4 Repression and Dissociation-Freud and Janet:
Fairbairn's New Model of Unconscious Process ............ 53
Jody Messler Davies
5 A Comparison of Fairbairn's Endopsychic Structure
and Klein's Internal World .............................. 71
James S. Grotstein
6 The Dialectic Between W. R. D. Fairbairn
and Wilfred Bion ...................................... 99
Jeffrey Seinfeld
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Part 3 Theoretical Connections: To the Future
7 Fairbairn'sObjectSeeking: BetweenParadigms 115
Stephen A. Mitchell
8 TheGood, theBad,and theAmbivalent:
Fairbairn'sDifficultyLocatingtheGoodObject
intheEndopsychicStructure 137
NeilJ. Skolnick
9 Fairbairnand theSelf:
AnExtensionofFairbairn'sTheorybySutherland 161
Jill SavegeScharff
Part 4 Artistic Connections
10 AlterEgos-CloseEncountersoftheParanoidKind:
W.R. D.Fairbairn,SalvadorDali,andMe 179
Steven Z. Levine
11 AFairbairnianAnalysisofRobertLouisStevenson's
StrangeCaseofDr. JekyllandMr. Hyde 197
HilaryJ. Beattie
Part 5 Clinical Connections
12 Fairbairn'sTheoryofDepression 215
RichardL. Rubens
13 StructuralSourcesofResistanceinBatteredWomen:
AFairbairnianAnalysis 235
DavidP. Celani
14 ObjectConstruction,ObjectSorting,andObjectExclusion:
ImplicationsofFamilyand MaritalTherapy
forObjectRelationsTheory 255
DavidE. Scharff
Index 275
Contributors
Hilary J. Beattie, Ph.D. is Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical
Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University;
Faculty, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research.
Ellinor Fairbairn Birtles, B.A. (Hons.) provides supervision for
volunteers working on the Great Ormond Street Hospital sec
tion of the National Child Death Helpline (U.K.); Co-Editor,
From Instinct to Self Selected Papers of W. R. D. Fairbairn.
David P. Celani, Ph.D. is Author, The Treatment of the Borderline
Patient: Applying Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical
Setting and The Illusion of Love: Why the Battered Woman Returns
to Her Abuser.
Jody Messler Davies, Ph.D. is Supervising Analyst and Co
Chair, Relational Track, New York University Postdoctoral
Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; Associate Editor,
Psychoanalytic Dialogues: A Journal of Relational Perspectives.
James S. Grotstein, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
UCLA School of Medicine; Training and Supervising Analyst,
Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society /Institute.
J. Alan Harrow, R.N. is Director and Training Analyst, Scottish
Institute of Human Relations.
Otto F. Kemberg, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry, Cornell
University Medical College; Supervising and Training Analyst,
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and
Research.
Steven Z. Levine, Ph.D. is Leslie Clark Professor in the
Humanities, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College,
PA; Author, Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist
Myth of the Self
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