Primer of Object Relations

Jill Savege Scharff, M.D., co-director of the International Psychotherapy Institute, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University, and teaches child analysis at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.David E. Scharff, M. D., co-director of the International Psychotherapy Institute, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University, and a teaching analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.Please click here to see a list of International Psychotherapy Institute Conferences (PDF file).

Students will welcome this little book as a way of breaking the ice and providing a useful introduction to the object relational world and its complex interweaving with the main body of psychoanalytic theory and practice.

• Chapter 1 The Self and Its ObjectsChapter 2 Basic Freudian ConceptsChapter 3 From Freud to Object Relations TheoryChapter 4 Endopsychic StructureChapter 5 Projective and Introjective Identification and ContainmentChapter 6 The Holding EnvironmentChapter 7 The Concept of PositionsChapter 8 Attachment TheoryChapter 9 TraumaChapter 10 Chaos TheoryChapter 11 The Therapeutic Relationship and the Geography of the TransferenceChapter 12 Relation to Other Theoretical Systems and Clinical ApproachesChapter 13 Principles of AssessmentChapter 14 Technique I: Setting the Frame, Impartiality, Psychological Space, and the Use of the Therapist's SelfChapter 15 Technique II: Working with Transference, Countertransference, and InterpretationChapter 16 Technique III: The Use of Dreams, Fantasy, and PlayChapter 17 Brief TherapyChapter 18 Technique and Theory Review with Clinical IllustrationChapter 19 Working Through and TerminationChapter 20 Integration of Individual Therapy with Couple, Family, Group, and Sex TherapiesChapter 21 The Application of Object Relations Theory to Various Syndromes and PopulationsChapter 22 The Role and Experience of the Object Relations TherapistChapter 23 The Development of Therapeutic CapacityChapter 24 A Guide to Further ReadingChapter 25 References