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Personal Relations Theory: Fairbairn, Macmurray and Suttie book cover

1st Edition

Personal Relations Theory Fairbairn, Macmurray and Suttie

By Graham S. Clarke Copyright 2006
224 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Personal relationships concern us all, they are essential to our becoming who we are and constitute our most vital experience of what it is like to be alive and human. This book proposes a new approach to understanding who we are based on the work of Ronald Fairbairn, John Macmurray and Ian Suttie, whose ideas provide a positive perspective on our future collective possibilities. Personal... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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