The Primer of Object Relations

Chapter 1 The Self and Its Objects
Chapter 2 Basic Freudian Concepts
Chapter 3 From Freud to Object Relations Theory
Chapter 4 Endopsychic Structure
Chapter 5 Projective and Introjective Identification and Containment
Chapter 6 The Holding Environment
Chapter 7 The Concept of Positions
Chapter 8 Attachment Theory
Chapter 9 Trauma
Chapter 10 Chaos Theory
Chapter 11 The Therapeutic Relationship and the Geography of the Transference
Chapter 12 Relation to Other Theoretical Systems and Clinical Approaches
Chapter 13 Principles of Assessment
Chapter 14 Technique I: Setting the Frame, Impartiality, Psychological Space, and the Use of the Therapist's Self
Chapter 15 Technique II: Working with Transference, Countertransference, and Interpretation
Chapter 16 Technique III: The Use of Dreams, Fantasy, and Play
Chapter 17 Brief Therapy
Chapter 18 Technique and Theory Review with Clinical Illustration
Chapter 19 Working Through and Termination
Chapter 20 Integration of Individual Therapy with Couple, Family, Group, and Sex Therapies
Chapter 21 The Application of Object Relations Theory to Various Syndromes and Populations
Chapter 22 The Role and Experience of the Object Relations Therapist
Chapter 23 The Development of Therapeutic Capacity
Chapter 24 A Guide to Further Reading
Chapter 25 References

Students will welcome this little book as a way of breaking the ice and providing a useful introduction to the object relational world and its complex interweaving with the main body of psychoanalytic theory and practice.