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Object relations theories and self psychology
Conflict and its consequences for therapy
Confusion and controversy
The Freudian starting point: concepts relevant to object relations and self psychology theories
Identification and formation of psychological structures
Stages of development and the choice of objects
Classical therapy or analysis
Assessment and critique of Freud
Melanie Klein: innovative and transitional theorist
Two developmental positions
Assessment and critique of Klein
W.R.D. Fairbairn: a 'pure' object relations model
Developmental stages and object relations
Pathology and internalized objects
Assessment and critique of Fairbairn
Developmental processes and parental care
Assessment and critique of Winnicott
Margaret S. Mahler: the psychological birth of the individual
Four developmental subphases of separation and individuation
Assessment and critique of Mahler
Edith Jacobson: an integrated model
Formation of the superego
Assessment and critique of Jacobson
Otto Kernberg: a synthesis
Pathology, including borderline disorders and perversions
Assessment and critique of Kernberg
Heinz Kohut: self psychology and narcissism
Kohut and the classical drive model
Normal development of the normal self
The pathology of the self
Assessment and critique of Kohut
Stephen A. Mitchell: the integrated relational model
Psychoanalysis without the drive theory
Assessment and critique of Mitchell