Object Relations Family Therapy

David E. Scharff is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in adult and child psychiatry, as well as a former president of AASECT. He is the author of The Sexual Relationship and co-author of Between Two Worlds: The Transition from School to Work. Jill Savege Scharff is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in adult and child psychiatry. She is the editor of Foundations of Object Relations Family Therapy.

This book gives individual psychotherapists a way of using dynamic listening and interpreting when working with couples and families, and it offers family therapists the powerful tools of psychoanalysis to deepen their understanding and skills.

• Foundations of object relations family therapy; adolescent development in the family context; shared unconscious fantasy and projective identification; the analytic group-interpretive approach; integration of individual and family therapy; an object relations appraoch to sexuality in family life; object relations family therapy.