Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory

by Stephen A. Mitchell and Jay R. Greenberg

Book Overview

Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory provides a masterful overview of the central issue concerning psychoanalysts today: finding a way to deal in theoretical terms with the importance of the patient's relationships with other people. Just as disturbed and distorted relationships lie at the core of the patient's distress, so too does the relation between analyst and patient play a key role in the analytic process. All psychoanalytic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674629752
• ISBN13: 9780674629752
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A comparative master piece

Greenberg and Mitchell go through 100 years of psychoanalysis thinking and bring it back right here in this amazing book. A must for all clinicians and professionals...Brilliant

A Classic

An astounding piece of synthetic analysis of a very, very complicated field, this book has rightly been referrred to by scores and scores of subsequent writers in the field of psychoanalysis and personality theory. The authors have critically scrutinzed the various schools of thought in the post-Freudian landscape and astutely determined their theoretical similarities and differences. The writing is direct and persuasive, albeit intended for an audience familiar with psychological terminology. It is amazing work and one of the best books in any field over the last 20 years.

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This book is necessary in developing a full understanding of Object Relations Theory.

Essential reading

This book is cited in virtually every book written on object relations theory since its publication. It gives a thorough background to the theories of all of the major contributors to object relations theory. It is brilliantly written and understandable with a basic knowledge of psychoanalytic jargon. An essential work.