The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland: Psychotherapeutic Applications

by Scharff,Jill Savege

• ISBN13: 9781583917329
• ISBN10: 1583917322
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-09-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Fairbairn and Sutherland were radical psychoanalytic thinkers who deeply respected Freud's invention of psychoanalysis, but who disagreed with his idea that human infants are motivated by the need to discharge tension arising from sexual and aggressive instincts. Fairbairn argued on the contrary that what infants need is to be in a meaningful relationship, and Sutherland carried forward Fairbairn's thinking on the development of the person as a member of a social group. International contributors set these psychoanalytic theorists in their philosophical and cultural context and discuss their acceptance in Germany and France. They re-examine Fairbairn and Sutherland's concepts in the light of current clinical experience, illuminate their concepts with contemporary psychoanalytic theories, and apply them in psychotherapy with children, adults, groups and families, and consultation to organisations. This book will be valuable reading for all practicing and training psychotherapists andpsychoanalysts. It summarizes theory, sets it in context, and illustrated the concepts with clinical examples.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Acknowledgements	xvi
PART I Fairbairn	1	(184)
The development of Fairbairn's theory	3	(16)
David E. Scharff
The persons-in-relation perspective: Sources and synthesis	19	(20)
Colin Kirkwood
Difference, repetition and continuity: Philosophical reflections on Fairbairn's concept of mature dependence	39	(11)
Ellinor Fairbairn Birtles
Fairbairn in France	50	(11)
Henri Vermorel
Fairbairn in Germany	61	(7)
Rainer Rehberger
An object relations view of sexuality based on Fairbairn's theory	68	(12)
Bernhard F. Hensel
Satisfactory, exciting, and rejecting objects in health and sex	80	(9)
Jill Savege Scharff
From Fairbairn to a new systematization of psychopathology: The intuitive position and the alienated and oscillating structures	89	(8)
Ricardo Juan Rey
How current are Fairbairn's ideas on hysteria?	97	(8)
Ute Rupprecht-Schampera
The real relationship with the analyst as a new object	105	(8)
Peter Potthoff
Fairbairn's object relations theory: Explaining the refusal to cathect the analyst	113	(8)
Sabine Vuaillat
Dissociation and repression in trauma	121	(8)
Sabine Wollnik
Fairbairn's theory, borderline pathology, and schizoid conflict	129	(11)
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	140	(8)
Theresa Aiello
Fairbairn on trauma: Individual therapy of a sexually abused child	148	(10)
Hope Cooper
The Nemesis within: Women, relationship addiction, and the moral defence	158	(11)
Carol Tosone
Aggression in the couple relationship: Fairbairn's object relations theory and Hendrix's Imago relationship therapy	169	(7)
Stephen Plumlee
Theories of art and theory as art	176	(9)
Torbjorn Borgegard
PART II Sutherland and Fairbairn	185	(98)
The self and personal (object) relations	187	(15)
John D. Sutherland
The legacy of John D. Sutherland: Self and society	202	(10)
Jill Savege Scharff
Personal relations theory: Suttie, Fairbairn, Macmurray and Sutherland	212	(8)
Graham Clarke
Autonomy, the autonomous self, and the inter-human: Philosophy and psychoanalysis in the teaching of Sutherland	220	(7)
Neville Singh
The social object and the pathology of prejudice	227	(10)
Ron B. Aviram
Application: Organizational consultancy	237	(12)
Judith Brearley
Object relations and attachment dynamics in group psychotherapy: Communication, regulation and exploration of affective states	249	(11)
Una McCluskey
Extending Fairbairn and Sutherland's socio-intrapsychic model to assessment and treatment of a stepfamily	260	(11)
Carl Bagnini
Teaching and learning object relations theory with the Group Affective Model	271	(12)
Lea de Setton
Yolanda de Varela
David E. Scharff
Jill Savege Scharff
Index	283