Drive, Ego, Object, And Self A Synthesis For Clinical Work

by Pine, Fred

• ISBN13: 9780465017225
• ISBN10: 0465017223
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-04-02
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

In this important new book, the noted theoretician Fred Pine provides a synthesis of the four conceptual domains of psychoanalysis: drives, ego functioning, object relations, and self experience. He argues that a focus on the clinical phenomena themselves, and not on the theoretical edifices built around them, readily illuminates the inevitable integration of the several sets of phenomena in each person's unique psychological organization.With superb clarity, Pine shows how one or another or more of these becomes central to a particular individual's psychopathology. Drawing on a wealth of detailed clinical materialbrief vignettes, process notes of sessions, and full analyseshe vividly demonstrates how a broad multimodel perspective enhances the treatment process, and is, in fact, its natural form. He also applies these ideas to such crucial clinical issues as preoedipal pathology and ego defect, the so-called symbiotic phase, and the mutative factors in treatment. Conceptually elegant and immensely practical, this highly original work is certain to be, in the words of Arnold Cooper, "a guide for theorists and clinicians for many years to come."

Author Biography

Fred Pine is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, author of Developmental Theory and Clinical Process (1985) and, with Margaret Mahler and Anni Bergman, The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant (Basic Books, 1975) and a practicing adult psychoanalyst.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Theoretical	p. 1
Multiple Perspectives and Singular Persons	p. 3
The Four Psychologies of Psychoanalysis	p. 22
The Four Psychologies in Clinical Work	p. 42
The Four Psychologies in the Developmental Process	p. 55
The Development of Motivation	p. 93
Pathways to Personality Organization	p. 114
Clinical	p. 117
Some Psychoanalytic Sessions	p. 119
Summaries of Psychoanalyses	p. 146
Applied	p. 181
The Concept of Preoedipal Pathology	p. 183
The Concept Ego Defect	p. 230
Infant Research, the Symbiotic Phase, and Clinical Work: A Case Study of a Concept	p. 232
On the Mutative Factors in Psychoanalytic Treatment	p. 247
Postscript	p. 257
References	p. 260
Index	p. 271
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