Personal Relations Theory: Fairbairn, Macmurray and Suttie / Edition 1

by Graham S. Clarke

Overview

Personal Relations Theory presents a new and comprehensive account of Fairbairn's mature theory. It will be of value to anyone interested in psychoanalysis, especially in relation to politics, society and the arts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781583917817
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/25/2006
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Graham S. Clarke originally studied Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He then moved into Computing and worked at City University, Anglia Polytechnic University and, for the last 20 years, the University of Essex where he is Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Personal Relations Theory. Part I. Why Fairbairn? Fairbairn’s model of mind. Fairbairn’s theory and some philosophical interpretations of Freud. Internal objects and inner reality: Fairbairn and Klein. Fairbairn’s theory of art in the light of his mature model of mind. The preconscious and psychic change in Fairbairn’s model of mind. Part II. Fairbairn, Macmurray and Suttie: towards a personal relations theory. Fairbairn and Macmurray: psychoanalytic studies and critical realism. The politics of attachment theory and personal relations theory: Fairbairn, Suttie and Bowlby