The Matrix of the Mind: Object Relations and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue

By Thomas H. Ogden

Book Overview

This book contributes to the retrieval of the alienated through the author's own acts of interpretation of ideas introduced by Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Ronald Fairbairn, and Wilfred Bion. It is offered as an act of interpretation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367328291
• ISBN13: 9780367328290
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Thomas Ogden

Thomas Ogden performs scanning of development of British Object Relations School of Psychoanalysis. He starts with Freud basis and deepens the discussion while talking about phantasies and inner structures as defined by Klein.Another deep discussion of contribution of Winnicot. For each theoretician Ogden offers fresh look and review of concepts ,after that he deepens and enriches each of them by looking back and drawing the discussion into depths of true psychoanalysis.