1st Edition
The Use of the Object in Psychoanalysis An Object Relations Perspective on the Other
Introduction
David E. Scharff
Chapter 1
David E. Scharff
Living Through Objects
Chapter 2
Jim Poulton
What Does the Other (in Our Patients' Lives) Have to Do with It?
Chapter 3
Carl Bagnini
Dreaming Up, Re-Finding, and Grieving Lost Objects: A Case Study
Chapter 4
Caroline Sehon
Illuminating the Shadows of the Object World
Chapter 5
Nancy Bakalar
Analysis Interminable: The Analyst’s Self as Object for the Patient
Chapter 6
Ron Aviram
Can an Ingroup be an Internal Object: Explorations of the Social Object Representation Concept
Chapter 7
Juan Tubert-Oklander
Beyond Subject and Object or Why Object–Usage Is Not a Good Idea
Chapter 8
Jill Savege Scharff
The Internal Object in Self and Other
Epilogue
David Scharff
Biography
David E. Scharff, MD, is Co-Founder and Chair Emeritus of the Board, International Psychotherapy Institute, Chair of the International Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, and Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China.
"By compiling and editing this superb volume, David Scharff has made an important contribution to our field. Each of the original and informative essays in the book enhances our understanding and appreciation of the various uses of the object, a topic of great importance and one that has been much neglected in the literature. This landmark work not only corrects that defficiency, but provides a valuable educational experience for students and practitioners alike. This is a book that belongs in the library of every analytic therapist."—Theodore Jacobs, MD, member of the New York Psychoanalytic Association, Author, The Use of the Self and The Possible Profession.
"This highly original book hugely extends the study of the variety of ways in which we may use our objects, and for that matter, misuse them or be misused by them. Disturbing interactions between internal and powerful external objects are examined, and careful distinctions between oedipal and pre-oedipal matters always carefully observed. There is deep and moving analytic work and thinking being carried out here. Prepare to be edified and surprised!"—Anne Alvarez, PhD, MACP. Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. Author, Live Company and The Thinking Heart.
