Understanding Mental Objects. New Library of Psychoanalysis, 22.

Perlow, Meir:

ISBN 10: 0415121787 / ISBN 13: 9780415121781

Published by London, New York: Routledge, 1995

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XII, 206 p. Ex library copy (formally discarded), therefore minor traces of handling and library stamps and stickers. - Contents Preface Introduction Part One: Historical survey 1 Freud and his associates Freud Ferenczi Abraham 2 Object-related orientations Melanie Klein Fairbairn Bion Grotstein 3 Orientations in ego psychology Bychowski Spitz Edith Jacobson The representational theorists: Novey Beres Sandler Schafer Kernberg Stierlin Object constancy 4 Self orientations Winnicott Kohut Part Two: Major theoretical issues 5 Origins of the mental object - internal or external 6 Status of the mental object - experiential or non-experiential 7 The mental object and motivation 8 The mental object as a developmental capacity 9 The position of the mental object vis-a-vis the self 10 Responsibility - the clinical issue Part Three: A conceptual analysis 11 Mental objects as representations (or schemas) 12 Mental objects as phantasies 13 Mental objects as developmental capacities 14 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780415121781 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 449.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Mental Objects. New Library of Psychoanalysis, 22.
• Publisher: London, New York: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415121787
• ISBN 13: 9780415121781
• Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 449 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychoanalyse

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Synopsis

The ways in which an individual (the subject) relates to and perceives other people (his or her 'objects') has always been a preoccupation of psychoanalysis and in recent years a plethora of concepts has grown up in the literature. In this ground-breaking study, Meir Perlow sets out to clarify the changing meanings of the different concepts from context to context, discussing in depth the theoretical issues underlying them.

The book begins with an historical survey of how mental objects have been understood in the various 'schools' of psychoanalysis as they have developed. These include Freud and his associates, the object-relations approaches of Klein, Fairbairn and Bion, orientations derived from ego psychology such as those of Schafer and Kernberg, and the self orientation of Winnicott and Kohut. In Part Two the author discusses the conceptual and clinical issues involved in the major differences between the concepts. Finally, in Part Three he delineates three basic meanings of the concepts of mental objects as they have emerged in the literature and shows how they are related to ongoing issues in contemporary psychoanalysis.

This long overdue clarification of a complex area, with its wide ranging and imaginative grasp of the different theories about objects, will be an invaluable reference for all psychoanalysts and psychologists.

About the Author

Meir Perlow Ph.D., is Senior Clinical Psychologist at Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital, Jerusalem. He was formerly a lecturer in psychoanalytic theory at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and now conducts a variety of seminars on psychoanalytic subjects.