Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self

Guntrip, Harry

• Introduction -- Clinical Description of the Schizoid Personality -- The Schizoid Personality and the External World -- The Schizoid Problem, Regression, and the Struggle to Preserve an Ego. -- The Regressed Ego, The Lost Heart of the Self, and the Inability to Love -- The Reorientation of Psychodynamic Theory -- Four Phases of Psychoynamic Theory -- The Clinical-Diagnostic Framework -- The Nature of Basic Ego-Weakness -- Ego-Weakness, The Core of the Problem of Psychotherapy -- Resistance, The Self-Induced Blockage of the Maturing Process -- The Nature of Primary Failure in Ego-Development -- The Ultimate Foundations of Ego-Identity -- Some Implications for Psychotherapy -- Different Levels of Psychotherapy -- The Schizoid Compromise and Psychotherapeutic Stalemate -- Object-Relations Theory and Psychotherapy -- Object-Relations Theory and Psychotherapy -- Object-Relations Theory and Ego-Theory -- The Concept of Psychodynamic Science -- Heinz Hartmann and the Object-Relations Theorists