Personality Structure and Human Interaction: The Developing Synthesis of Psychodynamic Theory [Hardcover]

Foreword , Authors Preface , Preliminaries , Introduction: Practical and Theoretical Purposes , Psychology and Psycho-Analysis , Psychiatry and Psycho-Analysis , The Development of Psycho-Analytical Theory , The Development of Psycho-Analytical Theory , Thesis. Dynamic Psychobiology , The Starting-Point Classic Freudian Psychobiology , The Later Freudian Structural Theory and Analysis of the Ego , Process Theory and Personal Theory , Antithesis. Dynamic Psychosociology , The Culture Pattern Theory and Character Analysis , H. S. Sullivans Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry , Emerging Synthesis Psychodynamic Theory of the Person and Personal Relations , The Relation of Melanie Kleins Work to Freud , The Psychodynamic Theory of Melanie Klein , Melanie Klein: Theory of Early Development and Psychotic Positions , The Relation of Fairbairns Work to Freud: Fairbairns Approach to Psycho-Analysis , Fairbairn: A Complete Object-Relations Theory of the Personality , Fairbairn: A Complete Object-Relations Theory of the Personality , Melanie Klein and Fairbairn , Conclusions , The Basic Forms of Human Relationship , Theory and TherapyHow has a theory of man as a social being to be formulated if we are to do justice to his individuality, to the subtle ways in which his love and hate compete within his relations with others and to the anxieties and resistances he shows when he seeks to change himself? To answer this question is the task which the author sets himself. After assessing Freud's basic principles, the author proceeds to make a uniquely comprehensive review of subsequent theoretical contributions to psychoanalysis with special emphasis on the work of Fairbairn and Melanie Klein. From a background of philosophy, theology and social studies, the author went on to take a personal psychoanalysis and to become a full time psychotherapist, and it is from this combination of wide knowledge and intensive work with people beset by conflicts in their relations with lį