The Sexual Relationship: An Object Relations View of Sex and the Family (International Library of Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes) - Softcover

Scharff, David E.

 
9780415000819: The Sexual Relationship: An Object Relations View of Sex and the Family (International Library of Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes)

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Reprinted in 1988. Slightly faded softcover with creased spine, bumped foot of spine and lightly worn and creased leading corners. Some superficial scores and scratches on covers. Page block has minor grubby marks. Tipp-ex stain on upper leading corner of inside front cover. Pages are clean, binding is sound, and text remains clear throughout. T

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Review

Scharff shows how sexual union gives us the repeated opportunity to return to the source of our most profound instinctual needs so that we can find there the nourishment for emotional renewal through a harmonious interplay of our internal object relations. . . . Scharff sees patients with problems in sexually relating as needing help in finding out how to translate the problems into emotional equivalents that are susceptible to therapeutic change. . . . The family group offers the means of working through a second time in adulthood what went wrong the first time in childhood, by continued object seeking, finding, and repairing. It is the unique situation in which transferences can be creatively satisfied.--Andrew Powell

About the Author

David E. Scharff, M. D., co-director of the International Institute of Object Relations Therapy, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University, and a teaching analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. He has published extensively, is chair of I.I.O.R.T. Chevy Chase and Manhattan, and directs the two-year program in object relations theory and practice at I.I.O.R.T. Washington. Dr. Scharff is in the private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy with adults, children, couples, and families in Chevy Chase.

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